It's my weekend to share a little more Visible Image inspiration and today I am focusing on the absolutely stunning Renaissance stencil. This stencil is so incredibly detailed that I wanted to create a piece of wall art where it is the main feature, rather than being relegated to a background image.
To create this piece I used a thick piece of quality black card stock, cut slightly larger than the stencil itself. I taped the stencil down over it, and applied gold texture paste through it. A little tip for this is to load a good quantity of texture paste along the top of the tape, and use a large scraper that covers the entire width of the stencil , allowing you to carefully swipe the paste down in one go to cover, rather than applying with a smaller palette knife , which wont give as even coverage.
Then I lifted the stencil carefully, and lightly tapped some copper mica powders over the top while the paste was still wet.
I wanted this piece to have lots of texture to it, and so to achieve this I used a heat tool to warm the paste until it bubbled, before moving on the the next area. When the whole surface had been heated, I put aside to cool thoroughly and harden.
I created a tile for the centre by thinly rolling out air drying clay, and lightly pressing the stencil into it. One hard I painted with acrylic paint and enhanced the raised areas with a little gilding wax.
When both pieces were dry, I added some words from the Beauty Is Art set, and balanced out with a Tim Holtz word tile and adhered the centre tile with gel medium to finish.
I must admit that I am thrilled with the way this piece turned out. I think it's definitely one for the craft room wall!
Visible Image have a great challenge running over on the Facebook group at the moment. If you love rainbow colours this is one you will love so do pop along and check it out.
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