Monday 10 March 2014

GD: Julie Ann Lee #2: The Green Man {Part 2}

"Hello everyone, Julie Ann here. Welcome back to the second of my 'Green Man' projects. This time Spring has well and truly sprung and it could even be Summer"!


Flowers are coming into bloom so blue has found its way into the green colour scheme and my 'Green Man' is most definitely a garden wall ornament attached by rusty nails to an ancient cracked wall. I am using Hot Picks 1009, Minis 18 and 96 and Lin Brown's flower sentiment EB05.



To create my 'wall' I painted my canvas with a good coating of French Roast. When it was completely dry I added a thin layer of Crackle glaze applied with a palette knife. Again, when I was satisfied that this was completely dry, I painted in bold, thick strokes with Guacamole. The thin wire was curled around a pencil: we'll be coming back to that later!


Now for one of my favourite things - some corrugated card! This was in some packaging and I just loved the shape of it; I didn't need to alter those lovely curved edges. All I did was to guillotine down the middle, Paint with Frescos in Bora Bora, Sage, Guacamole and Hey Pesto and accent with some Treasure Gold in Green Amber, White Fire and Aquamarine


I then played around, positioning it exactly as I wanted it before sticking it down with Heavy Gel Medium.


I painted the mask with layers of Sage and experimented with positioning the wire as tendrils around the face.


Out come the trusty Smoothy Card, this time sponged with some Bora Bora edged with Inky Pool. I stamped the flower head from Hot Picks 1009 on it in Black Archival Ink and then clear UTEE.

With a couple of coats of UTEE the flowers became quite mouldable.


Again I wanted to use the chunky edge of the canvas so I stamped the flourish from Mini96 using Fern Green Archival Ink. I smudged a little Inky Pool along the edges of the canvas too.


For my leaves on this canvas I painted layers using Antarctic, Bora Bora and Inky Pool and - yes - the lid of a deodorant! This idea of using 'found' objects to paint with is thanks to Darcy, both seeing her demonstrate, which is  a great experience and from her lovely journal page for Paper Artsy here!


When this is cut into leaves the stencil letters from Mini18 will appear just as highlights! I stamped over this with the Lin Brown flower sentiment 'When you see a field of dandelions...' and then die-cut into leaves.



I Gessoed the wire tendrils and fixed them to the canvas with Heavy Gel Medium. As you may be able to see, I stamped the Lin Brown sentiment over my painty background and stamped some of my flowers with black Archival and some with Cornflower Blue Archival Ink mixing and matching with some green versions of the flowers.


All that remained was to add four rusty nails to complete the 'Green Man.' These screws were naturally rusted - a find from me raiding Mr Magpie's useful nails and screws tin. He kindly removed the backs for me with a hacksaw. I edged my canvas with some White Fire Treasure Gold to finish it off.


Thank you for inviting the Spirit of the Woods into your home! Tomorrow night I shall be playing with some new products on my third 'Green Man' canvas. Please do stop by to see how I clothe my final Spirit of the Woods in his new finery. Julie Ann x

Leandra Says: I love what you did to that corrugated card Julie Ann, how amazing does that Treasure Gold look on top of the painty layers!

Gillian Says: Oh I adore this .... I'm a sucker for crackle glaze backgrounds, wire and corrugated textures, the softer colour palette works beautifully.

If you would like to join in this week's challenge and play along with Julie Ann's techniques, then do link up your creativity here, and go in the draw to win some PA stamps of your choice! You need to link your entry by 17:00, Sunday March 16th 2014


18 comments:

Keren Baker said...

Love reading about how you created your man. Really love the background you created for the leaves!

Unknown said...

This really is fantastic. Don't quite know what I can use for my Green Man I don't have any masks, but I'll give something a go

Helen said...

Am on the phone at mo so it's a bit small but it looks gorgeous!!

Lucy Edmondson said...

This is gorgeous, Julie Ann; I love all those Treasure Golded accents!

Lucy x

Miriam said...

absolutely fabulous! Love your green man!

Words and Pictures said...

Love the gleaming corrugated card, and the fabulous curly wire tendrils - another brilliant bit of Green Mannery, Julie Ann!
Alison x

massofhair said...

Fab use of the corrugated card makes a wonderfully textured background & adds lots of dimension.

Another lovely canvas Julie Ann:-) xxx

Kathi said...

Another treasure for your garden!

I love the corrugated card and the wire tendrils, plus all the stamped painted leaves.

Craftyfield said...

The corrugated cardboard looks so precious with the Treasure Gold! Love the wires and the crackled background too...

Dianne said...

Hello Miss Julie Ann, I don't know what to say, really, from the gorgeous background on the canvas, the crackle gave me shivers, it's so lovely, the corrugated wall is FABULOUSSSS, the green mask is delicious, the leaves oh my goodness, superb, then those fantastic tendrils, loooooove those if I can borrow Miss Butterfly's term a brilliant piece of Green Mannery, love that :O). Thanks for sharing all this inspiration, keep them coming.. ((( BIG HUGS )))

Unknown said...

love it! xx

Geraldine said...

Gorgeous canvas, love the mask and the corrugated card.

Deborah Wainwright said...

Another fab green man really love all the texture and the colours are beautiful. I realy like the corrugated card it looks really good. Love it all xxx

Brenda Brown said...

Amazing Julie Ann, love your creative mind xx

Sid said...

Lovely project, great visual effects and I love the colours !

pearshapedcrafting said...

Another amazing work of art! Love those Treasure Gold shades(yet more items on my list of 'must haves')
Who would have thought a green MAN could look beautiful he!he! Chrisx

Anonymous said...

Just beautiful. Gorgeous colours, amazing layers & textures. Sorry I'm late - yet again - getting to see this Julie Ann.

Kezzy said...

Wow wow wow I truly loved your Green Man week, I am in the middle of doing a small canvas inspired by this even though extremely late lol. I love the corrugated card, it really pops and the mask is awesome :-) Kezzy xxx