Hello everybody Jenny Marples right here with you at this time. I am nonetheless dreaming of Japan and having fun with creating little sketches of homes, outlets and different buildings I captured on digicam.
This subject gilded had me fascinated with the breathtakingly lovely gilded/painted partitions and ceilings contained in the Nijo-jo Fortress in Kyoto; a mixture of hand painted scenes and graphic patterns cowl gold leaf surfaces which have aged and pale barely. So I made a decision to try to duplicate that look, utilizing gold as the primary background reasonably than leaving it to the ending touches.
Reasonably than undergo the method of making a complete guide I’m concentrating on utilizing gold to create backgrounds for a set of journal pages that might be integrated right into a completed piece later.
A lot of Tracy Scott’s latest releases have an Oriental theme to them so you’ll be able to combine and match with these and her older designs utilizing the strategies I will be demonstrating.
As for color schemes my palette additionally displays these seen on my travels, however since gold might be thought of a impartial base you could possibly in actuality use any colors you select over it.
Apply a layer of Gold Fresco End Metallic Acrylic Paint excessive and don’t fret if among the brush marks stay seen.
To attain that timeworn look I discussed initially to make use of a wonderful grain sanding block so as to add again some matte patches to the painted floor. And that is it – the premise of my strategy to gilding every of the completed pages. These at the moment are able to be adorned.
When you web page might be secured within the stamping instrument securely, you’ll be able to stamp, add painted color, then stamp in black once more over the painted flowers to get the crisp and clear stamped define.
So how else can we use the gold background to create journal/artwork guide pages?
End the perimeters with extra of these black traces and a gold warmth embossed medallion from the Tracy Scott TS093 stamp set.
You may need noticed the textual content web page on the left facet of the web page; that is additionally created with the fundamental strategies we have already used.
Now let’s strive utilizing our layered gold method differently, making use of first the Sand Fresco End Chalk Acrylic Paint by way of a big stencil (on this case the Tracy Scott PS233 stencil) after which the Gold Fresco End Metallic Acrylic Paint.
Repeat stamp the Tracy Scott TSM26 stamp and add the black traces across the edges of the web page. I additionally caught a small piece of stitching sample tissue over among the stamping.
Embrace one other of your point of interest photos (in my case one other sketch) earlier than stamping and portray a scattering of the flowers used on the primary web page throughout the stencilled leaves.
And you may as well use your layered gold paper/card to border your photos as seen under.
Lastly, and I simply needed to offer a shout out to the brand new Mattints – they’re superior! I would performed round with some giant sheets of paper, pastels, gesso, the Tracy Scott PS443 stencil, brayering and tea stain however wasn’t satisfied with the outcomes. A few coats of the Mattints remodeled it into one thing I might use as web page backgrounds and frames for sketches.
Let’s check out the completed pages;
These gilded pages actually remind me of these partitions and ceilings again in Kyoto and I am trying ahead to finishing extra to complete the guide now. Hopefully you may think about using gold to create backgrounds on your stamping and stencilling as a part of your artistic endeavours.