Busy making gifts; the hardest part is waiitng for the glue (mod podge) to dry!! Some days are still more humid than others so it is taking forever and I am not always the most patient person on the block.
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I am enjoying this one. He has a butterfly on his shoulder! This is still a work in progress. I wanted to crackle the paint but I learned that you can't crackle over metallic paint. I wound up with an umber, bronze and white acrylic paints. Then sanded to distress it, then added the picture with mod podge, let it dry and coat the whole thing 2 times with a foam brush. When it was dry, I used a regular paint brush with mod podge just on him, using regular brush strokes as if I were painting. When that dried, I cut a new sponge into small wedges, dipped in umber and dabbed around the picture edges and wood. I did this a couple of times to get the look I wanted.
THIS IS WHAT I STILL WANT TO DO: I am in the process of sanding around the picture edge and will dab again with umber paint. I am trying to get a look that the picture and wood are one. To finish, I will coat again with a last coat of mod podge, put in a box and mail off to his Mom for Christmas... so ssshhhh don't tell!
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This is scrapbook paper on stretched canvas and an actual photo on top. I need to fix some spots of the overlap but stepping back for now. shhhhh another secret gift!
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| and doing lets of tiles. |
