Going with this month's Happy Daze
theme of 'Brighten up the month', I decided to do it with Verday paints
and Patina which you can buy here.
I have Paula Whittaker
to thank for the inspiration which I took from a card I received from
her which is featured in the frame. It is Roman inspired.
Unfortunately I couldn't get a frame to fit the 6"x6" card which was a bit
wider - but I could fit most of it in this frame. I loved her vintage
colouring and tried to replicate it.
I made my own mould of Roman relics from polymer clay which you can buy here. I don't think air dry polymer clay will work for this - purely for the durability you need for this project.
As you can see (I hope) this is a fragment showing a Roman ladies head.
After baking the moulded fragments, they had a coat of Verday paint (I'll just show you one)
I painted one coat of Verday paint on the outer fragment
Then the next day I painted another and whilst wet added the Verday patina coat to the outside.
Then painted the roman head.
I left the heads to dry for a couple of days, then buffed them up, glueing them to the frame once I had finished it.
A
plain wooden picture frame was first painted with texture paint. When
dry I painted a layer of pale blues. The darker blues are Verday paint that has had the patina
treatment, and of course the metallic colours not only mirror those of
the 'metal fragments' but also the colour of Paula's framed card.
Sorry
for the differences in the lighting and colours - it's my photography.
I bought a photo tent to try and get a better picture - the bottom
image - but it really didn't work as it bleached out the colours
somewhat. The true colours are those of the other photos.
