Hot Air Balloon Storm

Evening everyone, hope this post finds you all well on this cold and dreary night. It's a damp, chilly rainy night here in upstate NY where I am visiting and they just got over the Hot Air Balloon Festival. So what better time to do a post about a balloon in a storm then tonight.

This project is a media and was truly a lot of fun for me. I have done several mixed media in the past but to use so many various in one project is really new for me. For this project the are used: a blank canvas (I cut and put back together in a different design), texture paste, hot air balloon stencil, thin Popsicle sticks, twine,  acrylic paint, mica power and various size paint brushes.

The first step is to lay out the stencil how you want it on the canvas. Apply the texture over the stencil where you want it and how thick you want it. Carefully remove the stencil. I then let the texture paste set for 8-10 hours to harden. Next I drew out the area of the basket and colored it. I then added twine for the mesh siding and Popsicle sticks for the wood base. 

From Here I proceed to paint the background with acrylic paint colors and brushes. I then let the background dry for about 2 hours. I came back to finish the background and the hot air balloon with mica power. The power gives the balloon and background just a bit of shine among the dark colors.

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