Art Recipe: Fairy Tale Book

My dear Friends...

This is one of those moments  in the year when I'm compelled to do a really excited happy dance. :)

It's time to reveal some of my brand new products!!!

Are you ready?
If you'd like to read more, head on to Prima blog where you can find more info about these "art babies" of mine. :)

Do you need more? :) Here you are:

And to celebrate the new release, I prepared a very special new Art Reciple featuring my new Art Ingredients Iridescent Powders. I hope you like my Fairy Tale Book...

Here are some details:

And here's my new Art Recipe that I hope will inspire you to grab an old book and give it a new life.

Here is how it all happened:

1. I picked a book I wanted to alter: for my project the fairy tale book seemed to be just perfect!

I put a coat of Art Basics Black Heavy Gesso on both of the covers and I let it dry.

When the surface turned matte, I prepared a customized gel paste I wanted to use with a stencil on my book covers. I took a plastic plate and mixed some of my Art Ingredients Micro Beads with a transparent, permanent base i.e. Art Basics 3D Gloss Gel. After a short moment of stirring the mixture was ready to apply.

2. I took one of my stencils (Elementals Harlequin) and carefully applied the "micro bead gel" mixture through it on both back and the front of the book. I dried the project a bit with heating gun until it was dry enough to continue the work.

I took some more of 3D Gloss Gel and I used it as an adhesive: I glued a selection of different elements on the front cover to create a multi layered, interesting look: metal embellishments, buttons, some resin and plaster elements, pieces of old jewelry and more!

3. I continued the work adding more and more elements until I was happy with the composition. I dried the cover with the heating gun again, making sure all of the embellishments will stay in place.

Art Basics 3D Gloss Gel gets permanent after drying, so very soon I was able to move to the next step which was covering all the elements on the cover with Art Basics Heavy Black Gesso.

4. When the gesso was getting dry I started to mix a bit of my custom made paint: I mixed a bit of my new Art Ingredients Iridescent Mica Powders (available soon!) with Art Basics Soft Gel.

This kind of Mica Powder looks best when applied on dark backgrounds, that's when all the beauty of Iridescent Mica is visible.

I picked the first colour, cleaned off most of the paint from the brush and started applying it on the top of my composition. The effect was simply amazing!

5. I continued the same process of drybrushing with more of the Mica colours. At some point I wanted to add some more of the lighter tones to it and I also mixed some paint out of new silver metallic Mica Powder and applied it mostly on the "face" I had in my composition.

The effect was far beyond my expectations, with great contrast and depth! To finish, I simply let the project dry... and in a couple of minutes the "Fairy Tale Book" was ready!

Here are some of the products I used for this piece, all of which available in our store:


As for my new Iridescent Mica Powders - patience, my friends. :) I hope they will be available very soon, for now keep checking with Prima blog for more inspiring sneak peeks! :)

I hope you enjoyed this Art Recipe... I can't express how excited I was to work with my new products, just being released this summer... really, the best feeling ever!

I wish you a great creative week
Sending hugs and best wishes