Sea Joy

When it comes to art, sometimes it helps to just stop thinking rationally at all, which is how I came up with the idea of a huge seashell with a girl on top of it. This isn't a project to imitate step-by-step - you'll want to come up with your own irrational art idea - but the various mixed media techniques we'll explore in this project can help you get there.

Working with smooth gessobord, we'll transfer an image using gampi paper, add texture to the smooth board with modeling paste, and add dimensionality with sea-themed objects inside small boxes. For more tutorials and mixed media techniques, see make52 .

Step 1 What You Need

For the painting and background:
poseable figure
gessobord (Ampersand Art; available from Blick Art Materials)
acrylic paints, brushes, and palette

For the image transfer:
gampi paper (available from FineArtStore or Flax in the San Francisco Bay area)
workable fixative (Krylon)
gloss polymer medium (Golden)

For the mixed media elements:
light modeling paste (Liquitex)
small unfinished wooden boxes (available at craft stores)
gesso
craft glue (Mod Podge or Aleene's Tacky Glue)
embellishments: rocks, seashells, yarn
pigment powder (Perfect Pearls)

Comments

[triumphman]

Love your art! I saw a Nautilus swim, feed, and leave back to deep waters where it lives. They are awesome, like a submarine, only alive! They come up from the deep dark waters to feed and are a rare and wonderful thing to see! I truly believe in God's creation when I see these creatures up close! Seek Peace. Triumphman.