Playing with Stencils ~ 4 Riley

Hello Everyone!  Sue Lelli here today with a canvas I made for our ePlay Get Altered Challenge to create with stencils.  I had so much FUN making this canvas of my friend's granddaughter.  I was intrigued with this photograph he took of her jumping, trying to make her long curly hair fly over her head.  I got his permission to use his FAB photograph for this project:

I am so pleased with how it turned out!

I am going to "travel" around this canvas to show you up close photos of my stencil play and list which of the many stencils I used:

I Spy:

TCW Mini Texturized Stencil - circle clusters, chevrons on 4

TCW Mini Specimens circles and butterflies

TCW Chevron Tiles - Chevrons

Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste - white

Tim Holtz Distress Paints - 3 shades of pinks 

 

Here is a good photo of the chevrons and more butterflies

In the upper right corner I spy:

The same stencils with the addition of:

TCW Mini Sketch Grid

Art Anthology Dimensional Crystals in Peony for the dots on the letters of her name

Here you can see whare I added the TH Melange tissue wrap on the flat area of the canvas to be a background for the photo.

On another piece of tissue, I spelled Riley's name with rub ons from my stash and outlined them with several different black markers including my new Fude Ball 1.5 MM black pen.  I also wiped some gesso around the edges of my photo with my finger.

I took this side view photo so you could see the dimension of my flowers and how I outlined the frame with black paint.  When the paint dried, I used Art Anthology Dimensional Crystal in Blizzard and Peony to break up the starkness of the black and to add yet another layer of texture.

 

Now for some process photos:

Here is the plain canvas.  First I applied gesso.  Then came the white embossing paste and stencil phase.  This took a while because many times I over-lapped the images.  There was some drying time involved.  I wanted you to see the stencils and the plain area I purposely left so the photo would fit.  After the embossing paste was dry, I painted the entire canvas with TH picket fence distress paint for a solid base.

For this color effect, I painted the canvas in three sections with TH Distress paint for a gradient look.  I used:  Picked Raspberry, Spun Sugar, and Victorian Velvet.  I flipped the canvas upside down with the darkest color on top and liberally sprayed water on the paints so they would run.  I LOVE the end result and have to say it is even prettier IRL!

Here's a photo of how I added the mini chevrons to the chipboard number.  I painted it first with white gesso for a base then layed the mini texture stencil over it.

 

This is how it looked with the embossing paste.

 

This is how it looked after I removed the stencil and the embossing paste dried.  I then applied TH Spun Sugar paint to it for some color.

 

In this photo I wanted you to see the black paint around the edges and the Art Anthology Dimensional Crystal paint in Blizzard and Peony.  I LOVE how this frames the canvas and makes everything else POP!

 

I hope you like my canvas and I hope you come play with our ePlay Stencil Challenge!  We would LOVE to see your FAB creations!  Plus you can win a $25 voucher to use in the eclectic Paperie Shop!

What are you waiting for???!!!