Michelle Ward always have cool challenge for Crusader to experiment every month.
CRUSADE 25 : Properties of Gesso.
My experiment
(i) Using sponge to dab on gesso, let's dry. Apply acrylic paint, wipe for the excess paint.
Let's dry. Using the sponge to wipe again.
See the white dots.
(ii) Tear and paste the magazine page to the page. Lightly brush with gesso. Apply acrylic paint. Let's dry. Then, another layer of gesso. Spray some embossing powder. Using heat gun to melt the powder.
(iv) Gesso under colour & gesso above colour.
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14 comments:
Very interesting information on the use of gesso. Love the last picture and how the design comes through. Awesome. Pat
Hi, Lay Hoon! Looks like you had a lot of fun experimenting with gesso and making lots of fun backgrounds! :-)
Lay - these are beautiful pages. Thanks for sharing them. Hugs.
very cool techs!
I was wondering what Gesso is and what to do with it! Great backgrounds!
Very cool backgrounds. I love them all, especially the first one.
WOW!! Lay you acheived some lovely textures here!! Fabulous work!
Stunning colours Lay Hoon, I have left an award for you on my blog, Jaqi
Lay Hoon - terrific textures! Thanks for sharing your work with the street team!! Love those brush strokes.
these are magical! I LOVE them! I would like to try the texture technique!
Love the backgrounds, especially the last one. Fabulous color work.
Hi Lay Hoon,
FABULOUS work, and thanks for showing the piece with embossing powder, gives a special effect!!
Hedwig
You sprinkled embossing powder? I love it :-) What a cool idea. Thanks for sharing it with us.
wonderful backgrounds! love your gesso experiments!
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