A Garden of Blue and Green

Hi and welcome to my blog  :)  I've been creating a lot of mixed media lately, I really love using different techniques and mediums to produce artwork.  I have a piece of home decor mixed media to share with you today that I have created as my entry to the blog challenge at Country View  Challenges July Challenge - create anything using the colours blue and green :-  

http://countryviewchallenges.blogspot.com/2019/07/july-2019-blues-greens.html

For this project I have used stamps from Chocolate Baroque; several stencils from different companies including Chocolate Baroque, Hunky Dory, La Blanche, and TCW; various die cuts from my stash; Little Birdy chalk paint, Distress Oxide inks, Pebeo Dyna paints, and some Cosmic Shimmer glitter paste. I have also used some papers from my stash and some blue micro beads.

I began this project with a panel of greyboard which I painted with a pale green chalk paint, this particular paint has a really good coverage without the need of a primer.  When the paint was dry I took one of the stencils (script) and a blue DO ink and added some script randomly over the panel.  I then added 'splodges' of colour in a few places using a spray ink.  When dry I took another DO ink and stencilled a sort of firework burst image onto the spray painted parts.  This created flowers out of my ink 'splodges'  with the stencilled parts looking like stamens.  

I added some more stencilled patterns, using different colours and building layers.  One of the stencils I used was of Peacock Feathers, and I positioned them to go under my stamped Peacock to elongate the tail.

The final step in creating this background was to add glitter paste through another stencil, this time leaves, along the top edge of the panel.

. It was now time to create my peacock.  I stamped the image using black Versafine ink onto black card and embossed it with clear EP.  I then painted it with Dyna paints in blue-green, green-blue and gold.  When dry I cut it out.  

I used several sizes of flowers and leaf dies from my stash, cutting them out of papers from my stash and blending ink around the outer edges.   I added a little glitter to some of the foliage sprigs then assembled the flowers and placed them onto the panel.  When I was happy with their positions I attached them to the panel with 3D gel.  

I attached the Peacock with 3D gel and added blue micro beads to the centers of the flowers.  On some spare white card I stamped a couple of words in green DO ink and embossed them with clear EP.  I cut them into two small panels, added blue dots with a stencil, then edged them with a gold pen.  I attached the word panels to the artwork with 3D gel as before.

I loved creating this piece of Home Decor, and using different tones and shaded of the two colours for the majority of the design.  I love the bright, fresh feel of this piece too.

Thanks for popping by today, I hope that you've enjoyed this post and maybe been inspired to have a go at mixed media.  Feel free to browse through some of my other posts, I'd love it if you left me a comment, and I hope you'll drop in again soon  :)