2015 #20 Three Wise Monkeys {by Trish Latimer}

 2015 Topic 20: Triptychs

Hi everyone, Trish here, joining you this evening with a post about triptychs!

When creating anything at all, 3 always seems to be a magic number. The whole 'rule of thirds' thing, the fact that embellishments always seem look better (to me!) in threes...I could go on! 

I find a triptych of any kind is just as pleasing to the eye, and I love creating them! My project today was born from a relaxed playing session, simply going with the flow and doing what I love: messing about with paint and background stamping! 

You may recognise the loose theme I was going along with! I think you will see this better if you click the picture.... long rectangles are always fun to fit into a blog post!

Step One: To create the background on my wooden coasters, I smeared on paint with my fingers. To begin with, the lighter colours in my colour scheme: Snowflake, Zesty Zing and Captain Peacock:

Step Two: I then smeared on the two darker colours, Eggplant and Professor Plum, and added splats of Snowflake.

Step Three: I stamped a collaged design randomly on the edges. Not too much, or it overwhelms the main image! I used a variety of circular designs, taken from...

 ECL04...

EEG07...

...and EEV06

Step Four: I decided to use a hand drawn character as my main image, so sketched her out onto a scrap of card...

Step Five: I wanted to used a paper-pieced bit of card for her dress. The easiest way to do this is to trace the dress first. I used some deli paper, then cut it out.

Step Six:  I painted a scrap of card with turquoise paint (a discontinued JOFY colour), then over-stamped in white. The deli paper dress shapes can then be drawn around, cut out and pieced onto the finished figure.

I really love playing about with paint and finding new colour schemes, and the addition of crisp black stamping is always a nice contrast. Don't forget that nice effects can be achieved by not pressing the whole design onto the background when stamping, partial prints with a faded edge can look cool!

I haven't quite decided what to do with my 3 coasters, they are definitely a set, but could just as easily work separately! I may find a shadow box big enough to take all three, and keep them as a triptych. 

Whether the triptych you create is joined together or separate, it's always fun to have a theme running through all three elements, and I tried to come up with a new twist on an old favourite today! 

I had great fun in doing so, so thank you so much PaperArtsy for inviting me back for this theme!

Take care, 

Trish x

www.inkpaintbeads.blogspot.co.uk

What a lot of fun this looks Trish! Love the coaster idea and how you effortlessly have created a cheeky background and put such a fun series of linked collages on top! Thanks for sharing with us! I think you've nailed a couple of recent themes in this triptych too; circles and faces! ~Leandra

We would love you to join in with Challenge #20: Triptychs. If you are inspired by any of our guests who blog with us over the fortnight, then please join in and link up your creativity HERE. 

All links go in the draw to win a voucher to spend on products of your choice from the PaperArtsy online store. The Triptychs link will close 17:00 (London Time) Sunday, Nov 8th winner will be announced 2 hours later at 19:00.