Christmas Animals

Christmas Animals

Hi Everyone!

In the UK the Robin is a

much used Christmas icon

but if you're in the US you'll

probably substitute it with

a Cardinal Bird.................

or so I'm told

I wonder what birds are

Christmas icons in other

countries?...................

...............anyone?

Bit of a treat for you today - 

a small canvas by

Helen Chilton and it

features Robins............

Die cut the snowflakes out of card and arrange

 on a 6" x 6" canvas board.

Glue on with a wet glue and then seal. 

Trim off the edges.

When it's dry paint over with a good layer

of gesso

Let it dry again and then spritz with some 

Imagination Crafts Silver spray.

Blot back and then add some Starlights -

 I dabbed it on with my fingers.

Get out some Grunge Paste, add a blob of

 Toffee Fresco paint to colour it and

 mix together.

Scrape through the branch stencil directly 

onto your canvas.

 Don't worry if it looks a bit messy.

Use up the rest by scraping through the

 leaf stencils onto card. 

When dry, cut them out.

Using the same DecoArt stencil, 

trace some birds onto grey board.

Cut them out and gesso.

I've then added basic robin colours with 

Fresco paints.

To make them come to life, add details 

with coloured pencils.

 

Do the same to the leaves. 

Add a white dot to the eye.

Stick it all down onto the canvas.

 I then decided to add darker tones to 

the top right of the canvas.

Note the shading and highlighting on the 

branches and birds"

DecoArt Mixed Media Stencil:Canvas

Imagination Crafts Starlight paints:
Imagination Crafts Shake & Gilt: Silver
PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paints:
Coloursoft Pencils:
Find It Trading Dies: Precious Marieke -
Grunge Paste:
Greyboard

This is fun Helen

thank you very much

I am going to have to find time to

make this canvas so I'm off to

see what I have to buy.........

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx