Friday, July 31, 2020

Steampunk Art Doll - A Vintage Girl Wings

Steampunk Art Doll

I fell in love with Candy Rosenberg's A Vintage Girl chipboard pieces and knew that I had to create with them!!! You can check out all of her amazing products here - A Vintage Girl Shop 

The body/neck/head and hat will be available as a kit soon! I have other "art dolls" on my website HERE


This is the chipboard set that I used - the wings are amazing and so intricate!!!

I painted her with my all time favorite - DecoArt Media Products!!! OOPS - notice I left out Cobalt Turquoise Hue from the pic 



Of course I also painted her with my FAVORITE Brushes by Dynasty - you can get them HERE and use promocode: sandymc for an additional discount!

Here are some things I did to create my Steampunk Art Doll!!
I painted the wings with Gesso first and then them dry. Then I painted with Media Fluid Acrylics Medium Grey. I added some English Red Oxide to the wings but didn't cover up all of the grey. Next, I painted a wash of Raw Umber over the wings and let dry. Then I dry brushed some Cobalt Teal Hue and a touch of Titan Buff to give more a patina metal look - I love the way they turned out!







I drew out her shape and then painted the background (that I also gesso'd) with Cobalt Turquoise Hue

I started painting her outfit and decided she need a tulle-like skirt - so I used a palette knife to alternate before gesso and fluid acrylics to give her a fuller skirt with yummy texture!



FACETIME!!
I drewa a simple face and hair and then outlined it all with an Identi-pen
I love that you can paint over those pens without them smearing or running!!


Added more details to her face and hair and then outlined her eyes again with the Identi-pen as well as added some eyelashes


I used an Andy Skinner stencil on the hat and absolutely love the way it turned out! Then I added some of the chipboard buttons that came with the wings. Painted them up with the fluid acrylics and attached them with glue



I love that their logo was on the chipboard as well and I knew I wanted to incorporate that into the design! So i cut it off the sheet - antiqued it a bit with Cobalt Turquoise Hue, Titanium White and a little black.
I glued the wings and A Vintage Girl as if she is holding it with hot glue
I ordered 3 other sets of chipboard wings from A Vintage Girl and cannot wait to create with them!! Such a great company owned by a BOSS!!  Check out their products TODAY - HERE



Happy Creating, Sandy
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Wednesday, May 23, 2018

 SHINE TAG

I hope you enjoy creating this easy and fun SHINE TAG as much as I did creating it!!

Here is what you’ll need:
Wooden Tag – Bearwithusinc.com
Flower Stamp – Stampendous.com
Dynasty Brushes: Available at thebrushguys.com (use promo code sandymc for an additional discount)
Black Gold #14, Black Gold 3/8" Angle, Black Gold 10/0 Liner, Dynasty 300 3/8" Deerfoot,
1/2" Stencil brush, Medium and Small Mezzaluna (not in picture above)
M2-11 Stencil – sandymctierdesigns.com
Shine Stamp – sandymctierdesigns.com
DecoArt Americana Multi-Purpose Sealer
DecoArt Americana Acrylics – Snow Titanium White, Bright Blue, and Peacock Teal
DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics – Phthalo Blue, Titanium White, and Yellow Green Light
DecoArt Media Soft Touch Varnish
Misc Supplies: Water basin, paper towels, and sanding block


Prepping the Tag:

o   Using the #14 brush, paint the tag DecoArt’s Multi Purpose Sealer and let completely dry.
o   Once dry, give it a light sanding and remove any dust.

Background:
I used the Americana Acrylics for the background only. The colors listed for the flower and the rest of the project will be the Media Fluid Acrylics.
o   Load the #14 brush with Snow Titanium White and slip slap the color along the top of the tag at an angle.
o   Rinse the brush and load with Peacock Teal and slip slap the color along the middle section of the tag – again – at an angle.
o   Rinse the brush and load with Bright Blue and slip slap the color along the bottom section of the tag.
o   Rinse the brush and criss cross the flat of the brush where the Snow Titanium White and the Peacock Teal meet. Wipe the brush off often to softly blend where the two colors meet.
o   Rinse the brush and criss cross the flat of the brush where the Peacock Teal and Bright Blue meet. Wipe the brush off often to softly blend where the two colors meet.
o   Wipe the brush off and starting at the top of the tag, using little pressure and a criss cross motion, soften the colors. Wipe the brush off often as you work the way down the tag.
o   Lightly tap the Deerfoot brush where the colors meet to soften the blended colors. You can also use a mop – I’m just partial to this Dynasty Deerfoot brush.
o   Let completely dry.
Load stencil brush with Snow Titanium White and wipe almost all of the paint off on a paper towel. Lay the M2-11 stencil in place and using a circular motion with the brush, stencil here and there. Let dry.





Flower:
o   Load the stamp with ink and then practice stamp on a scrap piece of paper. This will let you know if you have enough ink on the stamp. Reload with ink and stamp flower in place in the bottom left corner.
o   Load the toe on the 3/8" Angle brush with Phthalo Blue and float the color in near the center of the flower. Come up a bit on both sides of the petals.
o   Wipe the brush off and then lightly bring some of the color up on to the petal. Don’t go back down to where the color is the darkest near the center – just where the float stopped.
o   Lightly tap the deerfoot brush where the color stops to soften any line. This will let it fade right into the petal.
o   Let dry.
o   Load the medium Mezzaluna brush with the Titanium White and wipe almost all of it off on a paper towel.
o   Dry brush the white in the center of the peals and in between some of the black petal lines. Switch to the small Mezzaluna to get into those smaller areas if necessary.
o   Load the 3/8" Angle brush with Yellow Green Light and paint the center.
o   Load the toe of the 3/8" Angle brush with Yellow Green Light and Phthalo Blue and shade along the bottom half of the center.
o   Wipe the brush off, reload with Yellow Green Light on the toe and add a touch of Titanium White. Blend on palette – making sure the paint stays on the toe only. Float color along the top of the flower center.
o   Wipe the brush off, load the toe with Phthalo Blue and paint a small “u” in the center.
o   Load the liner brush with Phthalo Blue and paint curved lines coming down from the flower center. Refer to the stamp to see the lines or just improvise. J 
o   Load the liner brush with Titanium White and paint small lines for the stamens.
o   Dip the end of the brush handle into the paint and randomly dot the stamens.
o   Load the toe on the Angle brush with Phthalo Blue and shade underneath the petal on the right hand side.
Load the Angle brush with water and dip into the Yellow Green Light. Tap the handle of the brush on top of another brush to add some splatter here and there. Let sit for a minute and then lay a paper towel over the tag and lightly press. This will tone down the splatter and give it more of a stained look than dots. Repeat with Titanium White.







Shine:
o   Load the Shine stamp with ink and then practice stamp on a scrap piece of paper. This will let you know if you have enough ink on the stamp. Reload with ink and stamp the work above the flower.
o   Load the toe of the 3/8" Angle brush with Phthalo Blue and float the color along the inside of the star.
o   Rub the small Mezzaluna brush in the center of the star to pick up some of the blue if it bled too much.

Edge:
o   Load the 3/8" Angle brush with Phthalo Blue and float the color along the edges.
o   Let dry!
o   Run the Staz-On Ink pad around the edges to darken them up just a bit.



Varnish with DecoArt Media Soft-Touch Varnish and let dry.
Add a ribbon of choice to your tag!!

CHANGE THE COLOR OF THE FLOWER TO MAGENTA, WHITE, OR EVEN YELLOW for another variation 
  
Have a great day and Happy Creating!!!
Sandy