2018 #2 Seth's NEW Fresco paints: It's my Life with HP {by Nikki Acton}

2018 Topic 2: Seth's NEW Fresco Paints

This new set of paints from Seth is ticking all the boxes! Greens and Blues always make me happy, and Nikki seems to have taken to them like a duck to water too! Beautiful ideas that she will take you through step by step. These are only available from our stockists, you can find a list here.

Hi everyone, Nikki here from Addicted to Art. Tonight I would like to share a slightly quirky journal page using a classic Hot Picks stamp set - HP1504 and Seth Apter's new paints - FFSA03.

I am a paint lover - so when the opportunity came to use a new set of colours I was very happy to oblige! For this project I chose to use a journal-ling style with the colours - building up layers and stencilling.

The colours in this paint set; Blue Lagoon, Double Denim, Magic Moss and Butter are very easy to work with - the blue / green / yellow range a perfect combination.

I started with 2 sheets of Regular Smoothy card and began by scraping the paint colours (except Blue Lagoon) with an old credit card. I then dry brushed with Butter to knock back the colour a little bit and also to bring it all together.

Now for stencilling and stamping - I used Butter through PS036 (Kim Dellow)

...Blue Lagoon through PS016 (Emma Godfrey) for the brick like border

... and through PS034 (Kim Dellow), 

I added the wonderful script stamp from another Hot Picks stamp set - HP1501.

To stamp my focal images I prepared some book text with watery washes of the same paints and added a little stencilling.

I love how the three 'faces' look together - with their minimal colour over the blues, greens and yellows of the background. Blue Lagoon is a stunning colour and Butter is a wonderful soft yellow - which will coordinate with many other colours. It was the base of my background, the colour I used to knock back the bolder colours and then used to add lighter stencilled shapes over the green and blues. 

Nikki

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