City of Night mixed media project by Lori Woods

 Hello creative friends! I've been having a lot of fun playing with the latest liquid acrylic paint sets recently but felt my metallique paints were being neglected so decided to use them for this months project! 

I had some little chipboard houses that I'd put together for a project that I never got round to creating so I started to wonder how I could incorporate them into this project. By cutting them in half I realised I could use them on the canvas, adding some lace and other embellishments for decoration.

After a coat of black gesso I decided to create a galaxy effect for this project with the chipboard elements as a city in the stars. To create galaxy backgrounds I like to slowly layer the paint, watering it down to create soft edges, and building colour with new layers. This way you can create a look of depth and texture.

You can watch the whole process here:

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Steampunk Easter Egg by Kasia Salmanowicz

Hello,

Easter is coming, so it's time to make an Easter egg. This time I decided on an unusual decoration using gears, metal elements and pieces of fabric. Of course, you can see the whole process of creating this decoration in the tutorial on our YouTube channel. I cordially invite you to watch.

The base of my project is an egg with rabbit ears made of HDF material. I painted it with white gesso, and then glued a rice paper motif with Soft Matte Gel. I dried the whole thing and additionally secured it with Clear Gesso, which provides a colorless protective barrier. 

After drying, I created a composition using metal elements and many different additions from clay and Finnabair moulds.

I colored everything with Burnt Sienna liquid acrylic paint. In previous months, these series of paints reigned supreme on the Finnabair blog due to mood boards in appropriate color tones. 

Finally, I whitened everything thoroughly with white gesso, but also added silver metallic wax. 

Have a nice day,

Kasia Salmanowicz

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Perfection Is Overrated Assemblage by Wiola

Hi everyone,

I still play with amazing new colours of liquid acrylics. This time I useda  beautiful Dreamy set to make a background for my assemblage. I think these vintage and rusty found objects work perfectly with those amazing liquid acrylics.

And what do you think? 

Have fun creating!!

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