Mixed media Butterfly

Hello everyone, Brr it turned cold this evening, so I hope you are all rapped up warm. 

I've been playing with DecoArt Media Mists. There a quite a few stages and this is probably the pieces that has taken longest to finish. You see I had no clear direction, so direction changed many times lol.  So grab a coffee and read on. 

I'm entering this into the Country View Crafts challenge Drips and Drops 

Any way I started with cutting my 12x 12 tissue paper into 4 twice so I had 8 pieces. Using a variety of colours and my 6x6 gelli plate I created these background.

I then cut theses into different sizes and laid them out and stuck them down on my canvas. I encouraged the tissue paper to wrinkle as I wanted lots of texture. Once it was dry I lightly brayered over the top in white to knock it back and tie it together.

I forgot to take photos at this part ( I was enjoying myself) but I used a couple of Dina Wakley stencils with Crackle Paste randomly over the canvas, when dry, I sprayed Media Mist and allowed it to run once dry rotated the canvas 180 so the drips faced upwards.  

I loved this! I should have left it there because I did this

I hated it! So I did this!

...and hated it more. ( the change in colour is due to different light in shed at kitchen)

So I left it for a few days...

I wanted to keep the butterfly so using Crackle Paste I painted the butterfly. Using a a pallet knife I attempted to even up the butterfly. I rubbed Burnt Umber Antiquing Cream in all over and when dry using a damp cloth rubbed it off.

To this I added influence acrylic in gold 

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I loved this affect but felt it wasn't bright enough to stand out from the background but will definitely do this again on another project. Instead I coated it with Aqucridone Gold.

Using white Media Mist I finished the painting.

Phew got there in the end. I hope you like the finished project. See you again soon Debsxxx