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August 19, 2014

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This is a photo of a beach in Greenport, on the North Shore of Long Island, New York. It was taken in September, almost October, so I put a little Halloween in here too, just for fun.
All of the chipboard was first prepped with some gesso, followed by some texture paste painted on with a brush. I only put a tiny bit on the sea horse. The chandelier got painted with blue metallic acrylic paint, then glossy accents, then a little gold ink. For the chains I applied gold ink over silver glitter. The flames have gold leaf on them. The crows were painted with black acrylic, then glossy accents, then gold mica powder and water. I went around the edges with a black sharpie to make the colors stand out more.

The blue mermaid was painted with watercolors. I drew fish scales over blue paint on the dress, then put a little green gel pen on. To make the hair look like strands, I scratched wet texture paste with a straight pin. I painted it with gold mica powder and water, and followed that with a little purplish- blue mica powder.

On the green mermaid I put scales on by using a piece of netting and texture paste. I painted it with blue watercolor, then watered down green acrylic silk. I rubbed in some gold mica powder.

The sand dollar I first painted with wet gold mica powder, then a little brown watercolor around the star part, to give a little definition. I rubbed in pewter mica.

The seahorse is brown watercolor. I added detail with a pencil, using a print of a seahorse as a guide.

The butterfly is by Reneabouquet.

The bg is gesso, water color, clear gloss medium(it goes on whitish and dries clear and shiny) . You can put the gloss on pretty thick, it retains the shape that you put it on. Viva modeling cream , in pearl. After the gesso I used a stencil by Finnabair for Prima. I painted the raised parts with Pilot gold ink. I keep pressing the pen down till I get a puddle of ink on a craft sheet, and then use a small brush to paint the little surfaces.

I made some texture on the bottom with different shades of unheated embossing powder, and glitter.

From Eapipkin, small pieces of blue lace on either side of the bottom. From Lynne J,small pieces of greenery at the bottom. From Sheila Marie a blue strand from a piece of trim, its shiny, at the bottom. From Quick Silver a piece of blue lace I pulled apart to look like something that would float around underwater. If the ocean was full of glitter and embossing powder.

There are more photos on my blog. I have some there taken in direct sun. It shows the bling and detail more. http://melissalarson57.blogspot.com/


Thanks for looking!



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