Winter Robin by Samantha Read
Hello, Samantha here today and I'd like to share with you a decorative hanging I made using lolly sticks, I've been using lolly sticks for years now and they are a really good substrate to use because you can through any medium at them and they cope incredibly well. For this project I used large lolly sticks if you can't find any you could use tongue depressors. Simply glue a piece of strong card to the back to keep them together and use a crop-a-dile to make holes for hanging. Stamp your images and you're ready to go. I always begin by adding a coat of white gesso, for this project I then used a stencil and texture paste to add the lovely snowflakes, then another layer of gesso. I used paint to colour the background, adding gesso in places and some splats of walnut ink just to dampen down the bright colours and add another layer of interest. I coloured my stamped images from Textured Birds and Textured Christmas Green using watercolours and glued them in place. Then ca...