How To Brand Diy Golden Leafage Abstract Art

Hey ya'll! 
I'm taking a pause from renovation updates for a calendar week or two. I receive got so much to country you. I tin give the axe barely stand upwards the wait, but I call back it's best to allow everything acquire finished too and then percentage everything.

In the meantime....

To acquire my hear off the fact that I'm living out of a Jansport too finding dust inwards places dust should NEVER be, 
I made some art.

 I came abode from this awful routine early on yesterday, pose on my Jesse sweatpants, pose the roommates elsewhere (because every bit nosotros learned final time, Tootie too Cheese hate art), sat on my bed, too played with gilt leafage too paint.

It was a glorious reprieve...
from this scene currently underway inwards my entryway.

So, I attempted to create a trivial beauty with the chaos.

Here's my gilt leafage abstract painting.

I've been wanting to brand i for awhile now, too after seeing these beautiful versions here and fair share of fine art inwards the past, too this i is definitely a favorite. 

The gilt leafage truly simply makes it.

Plus, I experience similar it'll await adept simply nigh anywhere. Not similar I receive got whatever means of testing that theory correct now, but ya know.

For the fourth dimension being, I hung it higher upwards Bartholomew.

After all this time, I've never properly introduced you. 

You tin give the axe telephone phone him Bart if you'd like.

So, let's run through a quick tutorial. 

The adept intelligence is that if you lot possess the mightiness to smoosh pigment on a sheet too role a gum stick, you lot tin give the axe practice this.

If this artistic amoeba tin give the axe practice it, anyone can.

Here's what I used to brand mine:

Glue stick

Artist's brushes

 Oil Paints (You tin give the axe likewise role acrylics.)

Gold leaf

Canvas

Heavy construction gel. I used the Galeria kind. 

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Since I was using crude paints (just because I dear the means they look), I applied my gilt leafage first. 

Oil paints accept forever to dry, too this affair is however moisture almost 24 hours later. 

I know. It's hanging on my wall. 

Rebel.

But, anyways, if you lot role acrylic paint, you lot tin give the axe apply the gilt leafage earlier or after.

Just apply the gum wherever you lot desire your gilt leafage to be. 

I swirled it roughly randomly.

Then, pose a sheet of gilt leafage over the glue. This materials is flimsy too gets flakes everywhere if you're non careful, thus I was extra fragile with the manhand.

Welcome back, Kotter.

After allowing the gum to completely dry, I simply used a newspaper towel to milk tremble off the excess leafage into a bag.

Once your gilt leafage is done, it's fourth dimension for paint. You don't receive got to practice this side yesteryear side step, but I truly dear the means it looks. I mixed inwards heavy construction gel into my pigment after I mixed it, simply to give it that 'impasto' look. It basically simply makes your pigment receive got texture too stand upwards out from the canvas.

I simply used a newspaper plate for my pigment mixing. Luxury.

You tin give the axe brand your fine art inwards whatever shape, color, form, or texture.

 That's what makes it abstract.

If you lot purchase a pigment pack similar I did, they ordinarily come upwards with most of the basic colors. You tin give the axe mix too check them to create other colors, too and then add together white to lighten or dark to darken. I truly receive got this little color bike that I role when mixing pigment (affiliate link). H5N1 reader suggested it to me means dorsum inwards the day, too I've been using it always since.
I truly struggled with mixing colors when I showtime started painting. Mostly because I would overmix too terminate upwards with brown, brown, too to a greater extent than brown. And I've since learned that a trivial color mixology noesis goes a truly long means when making art. 
So, for those of you lot who notice specifics helpful, that large blob inwards the below motion-picture present (the lightest one) is cherry-red paint, mixed with a tiny chip of yellow, too and then lightened with white. 
I used a lot of that combo on this painting.

I painted on this sheet forever, tweaking it too blending it. Eventually, it got to a signal where I truly liked it.

This is some other argue I dear crude paint. You tin give the axe croak along playing with it for a lot longer than you lot would endure able to if you lot were using acrylics. 

There are truly no rules when it comes to making abstract art. 

My rule: If you lot dear it, it's art.

I'm simply a sloth icon too living inwards my bed, thus my persuasion may non deport all that much weight. But, simply inwards illustration you lot were curious.  

Also, hither are the Google epitome results for sloth. 

Just to hammer abode how I'm feeling these days.

So, here's the finished product, however slightly wet.

I had to accept it downward temporarily after I photographed it today, simply to avoid the inevitable curiosity that would've for sure ended with pinkish paw prints all over my bedroom.

And a few close-ups... 

You tin give the axe truly come across the outcome the heavy construction gel has when mixed inwards with the paint.

Such a trivial beauty.

It's provided me with peachy joy during my fourth dimension of need.

Almost every bit much joy every bit discovering this trivial precious rock acre moving all of our materials final month.

You don't know Jesse, thus let's brand this a chip to a greater extent than relatable: 

Imagine finding a majority your married adult man wrote when he was five. 

And it's nigh his dear for McGyver. 

And he draws himself with pilus on his ears.

Mull that over too acquire dorsum to me.

That's all for today, ya'll.

Thanks for existence here.

I'll endure dorsum shortly to percentage the hardwood flooring reveal.

That's all for today! 'Til side yesteryear side time!

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