Paverpol Canvas

Followers of my blog may remember that last year I went on a Paverpol workshop and created a canvas.  Well I finally got around to creating a "partner" for it.

Bare Bones!

What the heck you are thinking what is that black creation?  Well it is a canvas covered in T-shirt material soaked in black paverpol liquid.  Butterflies and some of the flowers created from Cloud Clay, but there are some bought artificial paper and silk flowers there too.   The branch is created from some ribbon with a metallic edge, wrapped around silver foil, and then covered with some old dishcloth cotton

Finished Canvas

 The black canvas was then painted with acrylics and other mediums, and gilded with Pebeo Gilding Wax.  I didn't quite get the colours to match the original canvas, but they were never meant to be identical, just compliment each other.

Last year's original canvas on the left

New picture in situ on wall

Old picture on wall

Difficult to get picture of both of them together on the wall

Pretty pleased with my efforts, and glad I now have the pair up, as I had this in mind for the lounge, and the original canvas has been living in the hall waiting for its mate!

Autumn Fairy

Well here she is the finished Fairy Fae.   Painted with Luminarte Primary Elements, various makes of metallic acrylics and lots of Pebeo gilding wax applied.

Pretty pleased with her.

Fairy Fae

My daughter bought me a Paverpol kit for my birthday, and have at last got around to using it.   I knew what I wanted to do ever since I made my first Paverpol figurine a few months ago, as I knew we had an old shoe (or cobbler's) last in the garage.

First stage now complete - She just needs painting now

and this is some photos of the various stages of getting there:

The basic shape that came with the kit

Bulking out the shape with foil

First wrap with Paverpol

Experimenting with the shape of the wings I made

Almost done and sitting drying

Amazing what you can do with a bit of wire, some tin foil, some old T-shirt and some gauze swabs!  For the dress I cut out a vague leaf pattern in cardboard, and then roughly cut the shapes out of a cotton jumper.  Top of her skirt is an old honeycomb material dishcloth.   Wings are fashioned from florists wire wrapped with tape and a piece of gauze swab, I pinched from my husband's dressing pack!   Hair is twists of torn paverpol cotton squares, twisted into ringlets.

I am thinking I will turn her into an autumnal fairy - and paint her in bronze, gold and greens, as her skirt is "leaves".

.......   so watch this space for the finished painted piece.

Paverpol Figurine Part 3

Here she is ........

........ introducing Grace:

 

 

Although she was created to stand on my dressing table to take jewellery, couldn't resist taking this photo of her in the rockery.  The Jury is out as to whether she will end up on the dressing table or become an ornament elsewhere!

 

She was painted using metallic acrylic as well as Primary Elements (mix of purple and red for her dress).  Her hair was a sort of bronze colour, using a mixture of colours.

 

I also used gilding wax on her "body" and the base to create the illusion of bronze, as well as silver gilding wax on her stole, in addition to the silver acrylic.  She was finished off with spray and shine, and also iridescent spray and sparkle (although it doesn't show up in the photo as the sun had gone in!)

 

Here are a few more photos of her (She stands about 20 inches tall):

 

 

rear view

 

A little memory page of the stages.

 

Shame it is getting too cold to work in the Den this year.  Definitely think I need to make more of these and start getting commissions!   I am really enjoying working in this medium.

Paverpol Figure - Part 1

 

I suddenly realised tonight that I hadn't put a picture up of the Paverpol figure that I am making in a workshop.

 

This is part 1 - It will be dressed next week in the workshop and then I will paint it.  Eventually it will be a stand for my dressing table and will hold my necklaces.  I am thinking of doing a dress with a bustle for her.

Paverpol Owl

I promised I would show you:

 

 

picture taken in the sun

 

My daughter and eldest granddaughter called round today to spend some time in my Den, as my daughter wanted to paint the owl she made at our Paverpol Workshop, and needed to use my metallic acrylics and gilding wax!

 

 

Gorgeous isn't it.  The main part of the owl is made from an old flannel;  wings and leaves from various textured dishcloths, eyes and branch were from some cotton crochet that she made herself.  Feet were two little polystyrene hearts that were covered with very thin muslin; and the background was T-shirt material.  Oh yes and his tummy was again dishcloth with some wool fleece.

picture taken indoors hanging on the wall.

That Canvas - a better picture

Just a quicky tonight - just thought I would post a better picture of the canvas, now that it is up on the wall!

A3 Canvas

 and this little one is up on the wall too:



C6 Canvas

Paverpol Canvas .... Right Chuffed!

Yes I am right chuffed, this little ol' biddy has who always maintained she hadn't an artistic bone in her body, has produced a "Work of Art"!

Finished Project

 

Can you believe this was created from T-shirt cotton, dish cloths and some flowers I made with paper clay?   This was what it looked like when I brought it home from the workshop.  (I changed the nuggets when I got home, whilst it was still wet, as they only had blue ones at the workshop, and I had fogotten to take my black ones with me!)



The project as it came home from the workshop.

To explain how it was created:

A 12" x 16" canvas was covered with strips of t-shirt material dipped in black Paverpol.  I then created a "branch" from some ribbon  in my stash that I had made christmas bows with some years ago.  I covered it in paverpol soaked dish cloth material and twisted it into shape.

With a paintbrush I painted paverpol onto the roses etc.  that I had made at home from CloudClay. (see pics below). 

I also added a butterfly that I had made from one of Sheena Douglass's stamps (just as well as I had played and had this large one as the little butterflies were too small for the project).  I then covered two polystyrene hearts with fine gauze/muslin dipped in Paverpol.   I have to add here that when I was planning this idea in my head and making the flowers I hadn't realised the size of the canvas we were going to be working on!   Good job I took all my flowers with me and not just the roses and leaves!

 

Painting:

 

The background was almost dry brushed with metalic acrylic paint - blue and green vaguely mixed together, and some bits with just blue or green.

 

The branch was brushed with various green primary elements mixed with the primary elements glaze medium.  More of the green primary elements was brushed on the backgrround material

 

Flowers and hearts were painted in red acrylic and then overpainted with primary elements powder and glaze.  Leaves were painted paint-fusion style and then overpainted with primary elements again.  The butterfly was painted with blues/purple primary elements intially

Finally a touch of pale gold gilding wax was used to highlight more of the background and the flowers, hearts and leaves; and slightly more applied to the butterfly to make it stand out more.

Here are photos of the roses and flowers that I created out of cloud clay in advance of the workshop.

hand-made roses

butterlies and blossoms created with sugarcraft cutters

 

 

 

                                          

blossoms created by stamping into clay
with Sheena's stamps

the wired mesh ribbon

 

 

I hope you like it as much as I do - it really is fab when the sunlight catches it!   I can't wait to try and make another one. 

 

My daughter attended the workshop with me and I can't wait for her to paint hers - this is her "before" picture.  She has created an owl - the body was an old flannel, eyes were crocheted flowers that she made, and the branch was a strip of crochet that she had also made.  I believe his wings are bits of dishcloth, and his tummy has bits of natural fleece on it.  It is going to look fab - will post a picture when it is finished!

 

 

 

 

 

Altered Art and Upcycling - something completely different!

front of finished vase

I had the opportunity to go on a Paverpol workshop last night with my daughter which was organised by the Make-Horsham Craft Project, and oh WOW what can I say - I had a fabulous evening.  I am hooked!

 

Basically paverpol is a pva based liquid, which when set hard is frost proof.  You dip various natural materials (anything except plastic) into the liquid and then apply to whatever shape you have chosen.  I decided rather than using an old vase I would upcycle on old coffee jar:

 

 

the starting point - and old coffee jar

The materials used for my vase, were t-shirt material, cotton dishcloth, knitted cotton scrim, rickrack, some bits of pattern silk material, and an embroidery lily flower cut from another pieces of silk, and a few glass nuggets.

How it looked when we had finished the workshop

 

This morning when it had turned black was completely dry on the outside I used some gilding wax, in silver and two shades of gold on my fingers and highlighted the materials.  It will be rock hard in a couple of weeks, and will be frost proof.  I shall also varnish it eventually.  (In the meantime if I decide a don't like the colour, I could overpaint it with acrylic paint.

 

The next three pictures are different views of the vase:

 

 

one of the sides

the other side

the back

and here are another couple of examples prior to finishing (as you can see it looked a lot greyer before it dried)   :

my daughter's vase - also from a coffee jar



a vase from the lady sitting next to my daughter
(in the background you can see some of the examples done by our tutor)