Foxglove's Mixed Media

Hello, and happy weekend everyone!  I am back (again) after taking a break to study for a computer certification course.  I am happy to say that I passed, yay me!   This time around I made four artist trading coins for a monochromatic white (with some silvery glitter.)  It's hard to get the right angle to show the details of these coins, but I did my best.  For three of these, I put down bookpages and gessoed over it with white gesso.  I wanted to have that extra bit of interest, but I also wanted to keep to a monochrome color scheme.  The coin in the top left doesn't have a bookpage background, though, because I goofed on the original, then forgot to do the bookpage step when I redid it.  C'est le vie!   Here are the tools I used:   --2.5" circle punched from Canson Mixed Media paper --Stencils: "Persian Gate" from The Crafter's Workshop (this is the one in the photograph); "Wildflowers" from My Favorite Things...

Hello, everybody!  I am back with two more ICADs to show you! The first one follows the prompt of "Ferris Wheel".  I glued down scrap bits of book text, and then for added measure, I also put down some strips of washi tape; you don't really see them when I am finished, but a piece here and there does peek through. After this, I scrapped white gesso over the card, then went back with a paper towel and lifted some of the color.  At this point, I got so involved in this card that I forgot to take photos of my progress!  Yeesh!  Anyway, I dabbed drops of acrylic paint in Transparent Red Iron Oxide (DecoArt fluid acrylic) and Quinacrodone Magenta (Golden fluid acrylic).  I spritzed it with a lot of water, tilted the card, and pushed the color around with my fingers.  It was a fun mess! Look at how those colors mix and blend together!  I was surprised at just how much I love this color combo.  As you can see in the photo a...