Butterfly Bubbles

Hello my crafting friends, a second helping of something different for you today, its a card I made last year but have kept it until now, I was walking through Colchester one day and spotted in the window of an Art Gallery these beautiful paintings, or mixed media art that had been done, they were actually out of glass among other medias, believe me they were stunning to see. So I decided to have a go at making something similar but in a form of a card and not the large frame size as in the Gallery lol! At the bottom of this post I shall show a picture of the actual picture.  The artist is Kevin Bandee, his latest ones in the Art Gallery are stunning, he has incorporated leaves into these now, amazing! Do take a look of his work online.

I am sorry for the picture overload on this but I wanted to show step by step how I made it.

 

I started with a piece of White card and inked it up with several different colours of Tim Holtz Distress Inks blending them together

as much as possible then left to dry.

I then sorted out my Oil Pastels and began to draw the wavy lines down the card blending the colours as I went then adding the White lines.

To make the glass bubbles all I could do was draw in White circles to represent them, light ones in the background and stronger ones within the lines.

For the Butterflies I decided the best likeness would be the Shaving Foam technique, so I sprayed some Shaving Foam in a container and added several colours of Aquatints, I made a pattern then added the card, this was quite effective but not quite what I wanted as I did not want all the Butterflies the same, so I repeated the Shaving foam process three times for different colourways until I was happy I had something to work with.

On the back of each coloured sheet I drew some Butterflies and cut out one of each colour, I then coloured the body of the Butterflies with Black ink pen and went round the edge of each one to hide the White card. I then gave each one three coats of Pinflair Laquar leaving each coat to dry before applying the next. The finished Butterflies looked just as I wanted with the glossy look. 

I matted my work onto a a white Background then onto a White base card before adding the Butterflies in position.

I am entering this card into http://anythingbutcutechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/challenge-11-crazy-for-colour.html

                                                       Actual Art by Kevin Bandee

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx