Mixed-media canvas by Wiola Wuwu

Hi everyone, today I have for you the mixed media canvas. I used a lot of Finnabair products. To create the background with textures I used paper strips, fabrics, modeling paste, crackle paste. Then I just mixed various colors of paints and made composition using old photo and found objects.

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Guest Designer: When a wave comes, go deep by Anastasia Cernova

Dear friends,

We are happy to have Anastasia Cernova today as our Guest Designer. She is the winner of our June challenge and especially for us she created stunning canvas inspired by our current moodboard. Take a look and tell us - isn't it amazing?!!

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My name is Anastasia Cernova. I ‘m 27 years old and I live in a small Baltic country – Lithuania. I was introduced to scrapbooking 3 years ago and now it has become a real passion. Mostly, I appreciate the fact that scrapbooking has many levels of complexity, can be different all the time and basically has no limits. I love to participate in different challenges, experiment with different styles and materials, while I am absolutely captivated by mixed media magic! I am sure that charm and significance of scrapbooking and mixed media are hidden in small details.

It’s an honor to be a Guest Designer on a such wonderful creative platform. I was inspired to create this mixed media canvas by a beautiful sea colours from the moodboard. I’ve started my project by creating a background. For this purpose, I took a stencil and have used Finnabair Graphite Paste.

To make the work more interesting and volumetric, I’ve used wooden and plastic decorations. As the a main project accent I have chosen old house picture and Sentiments Stickers. Almost in every work I use Word Stickers, because it’s a perfect opportunity to fill the work not only with beauty, but also with content. Hope you will like my seaside!

And here is current challenge moodboard:

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Turisas

Drawing, painting skills and addition of mixed media love!
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You may or may not know that I’m a metal head so to say. While I can listen to many music genres, I really prefer heavy metal above all of those. And one of the great loves I have amongst the genre is Turisas, a Finnish ‘viking metal’ band though they themselves prefer not to be called that.

About a year ago I shared a canvas called “Heart of Turisas” here in Mixed Media Place and now it’s time for another Turisas themed creation. This time I was inspired by the new gig set up the band has – a giant banner with the band members stylized in icon-like way. I’ve been looking the banner design some time now and decided to make my own take using that and the singer of the band as my inspiration.

I started by sketching the face lightly and then added the colors in using acrylics and black gesso. I painted most of the cape red and the face with different flesh tones and the hair with brown and then treated the whole background black with gesso.

 

Next I started adding the bibs and bobs to the canvas. I tried to keep it manly and thus not adding any flowers and also tried to add music related things in the mix. There’s a pick, a piece of a speaker, some guitar strings and a headphone in there. I added the pieces to the canvas using 3D Gloss Gel. After letting the medium dry, I then painted everything first black and then started bringing the colors again in. This time I used acrylics mixed with Mica powder, mists and lastly PanPastels. The face of the character is drawn using PITT pens and a pencil.

My great intention is to give this to the band if they want it, but let see how it goes. Until now the warlord has been staring me from a shelf above the TV. Maybe it’s good to have him there watching over us, guarding like an iconic being should?

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