Insta-Art (WOYWW)

Hey there people and Happy Wednesday to you, wherever in the world you may be. Today I am excited to share with you another episode of my art series on my little blog - Insta-Art.
I love sharing the process behind my art here on the blog. Seeing works go from a blank page to a finished piece is so much fun! It also might inspire you and your art work too!

 Here it is: the intimidating blank canvas!

 First, a coat of gel medium then ...

 ... vintage collage!

 I combined book pages with musical manuscript to give it more variety.

 After I'd left it to dry overnight, here it was. Ready to paint!

 I used metallics, yellows and whites with some burnt umber as my background.

Instead of leaving it to dry though, I took a damp cloth and rubbed away some of the paint to reveal the vintage papers beneath.

 Now I began to paint in my tree for the family. Again using burnt umber and bronze metallic acrylic as my colour scheme.

 Here are my photos for the family tree - cute eh?

 I decided to back them on gold distressed card to act as frames.

 I wasn't totally happy with the result though, so....

 Off came the photos and a rethink happened.

 Bye bye cute photos!

 I decided to collage the tree with manuscript paper ...

...  I even added some leaves this time!

 I used the vintage book pages as frames this time, and distressed them with chalks and inks.

And here is the finished article - already listed in my store!
I hope you enjoyed this peek into my process - I enjoy sharing the step by step with you a lot. Even if my camera doesn't (it has an awful lot of paint splodges all over it, that's for sure!)

Have a great day people!