....Welcome to a new challenge at
Creative Artiste is a monthly challenge blog for everyone who likes to mix their media. So, as long as you like to use various mediums on your creations, we'd love to see you enter the challenge.
A big Thank You to everyone who entered the challenge last month. Your projects were all wonderful and our winners have been announced on the blog.
Our theme is always
"Anything Mixed Media Goes"
We have opportunities to be a Guest Designer for all our winners.
"Anything Mixed Media Goes"
We have opportunities to be a Guest Designer for all our winners.
1. I started by painting the head with white gesso and sticking down some resin cogs and domes with Prima's Heavy Body Gel. The cogs are mostly from Prima's Machine Parts mould.
2. I gave the cogs a coat of white gesso and then added watered down DecoArt Prussian Blue Hue fluid acrylic to the wood with a brush. I sprayed more water to spread and lighten the colour in some areas. I added the paint to the sides of the head. Then I dried the paint to fix it.
3. I next added watered down DecoArt Cobalt Turquoise Hue fluid acrylic. I sprayed with more water and allowed it to run down the sides. I used the brush to help to blend it in and dried it to fix the colour.
4. I dry brushed the cogs with white acrylic paint to lighten them and make them look more uniform. I painted the unicorn's eye with black acrylic paint.
I dabbed a sticky glue onto random areas of the cogs and sprinkled them with IndigoBlu Royal Peacock gilding flakes and brushed off the excess. I also did the unicorn's horn.
I gave the flakes a good buffing to make it all shine.
Now it's your turn to have fun and create your mixed media projects. You can enter our challenge as many times as you like. A full list of the rules is on the challenge blog. For more inspiration please visit the Creative Artiste Challenge Blog to see the fabulous mixed media projects created by our multi talented team.
Remember to have fun crafting and enter your "Anything Mixed Media Goes" creations in our
Remember to have fun crafting and enter your "Anything Mixed Media Goes" creations in our
October challenge.
I have entered this project in the following challenges:
What a great find, the cogs and gears have transformed the unicorn into an adult, love those colours always dynamic together. Beautiful make Andree.
ReplyDeleteHappy crafty October Tracey x
Wow, what a transformation! I love all your additions and the colours look stunning 😊. Wishing you a very Happy October! Hugs, Jo x
ReplyDeletewow fantastic and great design and fab job Andree.......gr karin
ReplyDeleteAndree, so beautiful. I love all the cogs. Really cool looking. Fabulous project, big hugs xxx
ReplyDeleteLove those colors, Andree, and the steampunk look! So clever of you to pay extra attention to the eye too--makes a whole world of difference. Hope you have a happy October! xo Anita
ReplyDeleteSuch a magical piece - my granddaughter is obsessed with unicorns at the moment so I should have a look for a similar head and create a piece like this for her - it would have to be pink though lol!
ReplyDeleteOh Andree this is stunning. Such detail and so colourful. So much eye candy. Love it - what a find.
ReplyDeleteI love that horse! Very cool. And thanks for top 3. And I can't see where to connect to you, and I hate to say this in a comment, but I'm game to be a guest designer if you need one. Have a great weekend, hugs-Erika
ReplyDeleteWell done on painting this guy! Turned out so fabulous. Thanks for having me Guest with you all this month.
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