Venture to Funky Town with Perfect Paints!
Hi, friends! It's Walter on the blog today with a fun, bold, and colorful project. I have eclectic taste in art and design. I like anything vintage, as you know from several of my posts. I also like things that are bold and colorful; one might even say funky. I recently fell in love with some stamp sets that feature these quirky little buildings and homes. They're irregularly shaped, have lots of cool details, and may be mixed and matched to form various designs. I make a lot of cards and will definitely be making a lot with them. However, I wanted something larger that may be displayed. My eyes gazed upon a small blank canvas that was calling out to have some color added to it . . . and that's when inspiration struck. I knew that the bright colors of the Perfect Paints Shimmering Matte Acrylics would bring these stamps to life. So . . . let's take a trip to Funky Town!
I used the following Perfect Paints Products to create it:
Aall & Create Stamp Sets: La Maison de Abs, Tudor Cottage, and Community Corner
Lawn Fawn Jet Black Ink Pad
Post-It Low Tack Tape
Craft Glue
Stapler
Paint Brushes - detail and one with a broader head for the background
Blank 8"x10" canvas
Moon from Gecko Galz
Detail Black Markers
Gel Pens for Detail
Finnabair Art Basics 3D Gloss Gel
Ranger Glossy Accents
Colored Flat Back Rhinestones
Directions:
I started by removing the canvas from the wooden frame to make it easier to stamp the images. I did this using needle nose pliers and a small flat head tool to lift the staples a bit.
I placed the canvas on my stamping platform. Using a stamping platform will ensure that you may easily restamp the image until you have a dark impression and not have to worry about the stamp and image aligning. I secured the canvas on the stamping platform using some Post-It low tack tape on the back of it. I also placed a piece of Post-It tape along the bottom of the canvas to keep my images aligned as I stamped them and to leave space for a sidewalk. I decided on what stamps I wanted to use and stamped them one by one using Lawn Fawn Jet Black ink.
I used a hair dryer on low to make sure that the ink was dry once all of the stamping was done. I then reattached the canvas to the wooden frame. I started with securing it with some craft glue and then used a stapler to reinforce it.
Now the fun of bringing the canvas to life could begin! I removed the strip of Post-It tape from the bottom of the canvas and applied Riverstone Texture Medium to create a sidewalk. Riverstone has the perfect texture to recreate cement. I used a palette knife to spread it across and then let it dry. Once dry, I painted it with a mixture of Shadow Shimmering Matte Acrylic and Perfect Glaze Medium to thin it out a bit. I also added small touches of Espresso Shimmering Matte Acrylic and Barely There Shimmering Matte Acrylic to add some contrast.
The beauty of a project like this is that you may paint it with whatever colors you may like. I have listed above the color plate of Shimmering Matte Acrylics that I used in my creation. However, you may let your imagination run wild - go with bold choices or more traditional colors . . . whatever tickles your fancy! That said, I'm not going to go through every step of painting. Here are some general tips for painting stamped images:
Mix your Shimmering Matte Acrylics with Perfect Glaze Medium to thin out the paint and make it more translucent. There so many details on these stamped images that you don't want to paint over them and make them harder to see.
Use a detail brush for painting the stamped images. You need a smaller brush due to the size of the images.
Don't be afraid to mix colors to create lighter or darker shades. Also, don't be afraid to add shading and variations with a different color over the painted color once it's dry.
I chose to paint the background last since it was going to be a dark night sky. Bohemian Blue Shimmering Matte Acrylic was the perfect choice for a night sky. I added it directly to canvas using a wider brush at the top and worked my way down. I changed to a detail brush as needed to go into between smaller spaces.
I thought that a cloud with the rainbow-colored words Funky Town would be a fun touch. I painted the cloud first with Halo Shimmering Matte Acrylic to get the shape and then added touches of Barely There Shimmering Matte Acrylic to fill it in. I then painted a strip of chipboard with Halo, let it dry, and printed the words Funky Town with gel pens. I glued it down into the cloud.
I let the painting dry and then brushed a coat of a 3D Gloss Gel over it. I did this to protect the paint and add a glossy look to the painted canvas. With that done and dry, I used some detail tip black markers and gel pens to make some small corrections and details.
What place named Funky Town would be complete with a fun moon in the night sky? I thought this vintage smiling moon from Gecko Galz would be perfect. A little bit of Honey Gold Shimmering Matte Acrylic was painted as a light swirl in the sky. I fussy cut it out the moon, glued it down in the center of the Honey Gold swirl, and added Ranger Glossy Accents to really make it shine. The last step was adding some black rhinestones after the words Funky Town to create an exclamation point and some light rhinestones into the sky as stars.
Trip to Funky Town complete! I absolutely love how this project turned out. It's a fun canvas filled with texture, whimsy, and bold colors. You may choose to dial it up even more or tone it down . . . it's you world that you're creating. You do you!
Thanks for spending some time with me on the blog today. I hope that you enjoyed our creative time together. I'll see you again soon!
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