Cracked Vase

Remember the pot vase that I picked up at the car boot?

I gave it a coat of prussian blue paint.

Then I mixed up some 3d flex, ivory powertex and a bit of water to create the mix to spread on the to make the cracks.

I mixed up batches at a time, so I wasn't left with way too much.

I used a pallet knife to spread the mix on this side and it created lovely large cracks.

And when I applied it to this side I used my hand to press it onto the vase. As you can see it's still created cracks, but in a different way.

I coloured it using lots of different mediums. Firstly I sprayed it with Dylusions inks in orange. Then used golden hi-flow inks in napole red and quinacridone red and finally once it was all dry I used the Powerwax mixed with ginger and peach pigments to cover all of the vase.

And this is the other side. I also painted the neck and bottom with black paint.

Close up of the side that was applied with a pallet knife.

Close up of the other side applied with my fingers.

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When I went for a walk with Fraz this morning, I picked up these dried poppy pods that had broken off and were lying on the pavement.

Bistres

Had a little play with Bistres today, used yellow, blue, red and natural which is a brown. They appear to work exactly the same as Brushos. To be honest, in my opinion, there's no difference in them, they just come in different packaging and the Bistres are in much larger pots than the Brushos, but for me that's not a problem as I'm probably never going to get through all my Brushos anyway.

Brusho on Watercolour Paper

Tried a few more things today with Brusho, namely bleaching out of the colour.

I stamped some images into the brusho with bleach, but didn't get a very good impression, so over stamped in black with an oriental image.

I removed some of the background colour using scrunched paper and used a paint brush on the stamped image.

I stamped the image after I'd removed some of the background using bleach and a baby wipe.

Not that excited about these, still on a quest for the right type of card.  This particular water colour paper was textured so I didn't get a very crisp image from the stamping.

Playing with Brusho

Got inspired to play with my limited amount of Brushos last night. I experimented on various types of card with different absorbencies to see what would happen and how they would disperse, or not!!

I started with a heavy weight cartridge paper which absorbed the crystals and made the background speckled.

I wet the cartridge paper first on this one, then I went mad and added nearly every colour I had and just kept spraying until it had all dispersed and left it to dry.

This time I used HP photo cards and got very different results, the crystals moved a lot more over the page.

Believe it or not, this is actually moss green!! I heated the card too much as it cracked in various places!! Love the white space on this one.

In contrast this one is lime green with a bit of red rose thrown in.

And these two were done on a smooth coated white card, and it didn't really absorb much, it just left a light colouring and then ran off to the edges, probable because of the coating.

Managed to pick up some of the colour, but it's quite dull, but then it was olive green which is quite a dark colour.

This one is sandstone, which is a dark brown, but it's kind of come out a light orange.

Shall keep playing with different types of card, but it all depends on what look you are going for I think.