Open Up!

This could start like a fairy tale:
"One fine day, a little boy found a mysterious padlock in his backyard..."
Are you curious what happened next? :)
Take a look!

Today I'd like to show you another small mixed media canvas.

This time I decided to turn my canvas the other way round and use the back side.

First, as always, using gel medium, I glued all sorts of materials on the canvas - band-aids, looosely woven canvas so as to make my background more structural.

The new thing I used for building my background, was dry paint from my palette. Sometimes when I paint, I squeeze too much paint out of the tube and it dries on my palette. It was quite easy to pull off the dry patch and I thought to use it in my work to add some interesting texture.
I glued it also using gel medium.

When everything dried, I made a composition using fabulous Mechanicals from Finnabair, wood embellishments, buttons, paper flowers, beads and an old padlock found in the backyard by my son. :)

I painted the embellishments with acrylic paints mixed with gel medium, but for the padlock I used Inka Gold.

Inka Gold is perfect for metal - it's fast drying and super easy and quick to apply metallic rub to add some color.

Finally, I stamped my background with a 3rd Eye stamp and I splashed my canvas with watered down gold acrylic paint.

Materials from Mixed Media Place: