Like a Punky Moth to a Flame

This is a lovely little canvass I've made for the Chocolate Baroque colour challenge #22  http://chocolatebaroquechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/.  I love these colours and at first I was tempted to go down the Autumn route, but I thought I'd do something different this time.  As you may have guessed I'm a Steampunk fan and have quite a few stamps and dies in that genre.  For this artwork I have used stamps from the CB sets Punky Flowers and Steampunk Butterfly; various cog dies; DI's Twisted Citron, Fossilised Amber, and Rusty Hinge; acrylic paints in green, yellow ochre, lemon yellow; Dyna paint Iridescent gold; black Versafine ink; gilding waxes; sunburst stencil, Tando creative cogs stencil.  I started by giving the canvass a coat of white gesso, when dry I stamped the lamp flowers directly onto it in black ink and heat embossed with black powder.  I then painted the image with Pebeo Drawing Gum and let it dry, to mask the image.  I used the acrylic paints to create a background like glowing lamplight .  When that was dry I applied gold paint through the stencil, then when that was dry I added DI through the cog stencil.  I used a corner stamp at the top of the canvass and heat embossed as before.  I then stamped some cogs along the bottom and heat embossed them.  I painted them with  acrylics, mixing gold paint with a couple of the colours to create a metallic sheen on some of them.  While that was drying I took some white card, stamped the butterfly and heat embossed it as before.  I did the same with some flower images.  I then cut them all out and painted them with DI's, mixing some gold paint in as highlights.   I painted some more pieces of card with the DI's then die cut cogs in various sizes out of them.  I added gilding waxes to some of the cogs to give them a metallic look.   Next I rubbed off the drawing gum and painted the images with DI's, and added Glossy Accents to the lamps to make them look like bulbs.  I added the painted die cut cogs, flowers and butterfly with dimensional glue, and blended black DI around the edges of the canvass.  I'm really pleased with this artwork and I loved creating it.  I have doubled up on photos, with and without a flash, to emphasize the metallic sheen.