Hi folks!
Firstly, a very happy Holi ! 😃
Today am going to share with you my new mixed-media Ganesha.
For this, I used a canvas which I painted before. The background is made by melting crayon shavings. And the swirls are made using air-dry clay. You can see the tutorial in this link → Mixed Media Art .
I used this canvas as background for my current work. I spray painted it gold.
The background now looks like this.
I decided to paint a Ganesha sitting on a pedestal with some bells in the background. Then I made a paste of glue, talcum powder and white acrylic paint. I piped this paste into the design I desired.
I waited until this paste dried. I wanted to give it some more dimension. So for that I used spackling paste and spread it using palette knife. After the paste dried, I was not satisfied with the finish. It was very rough. So I had to use thin sheet of air dry clay and pasted it on the rough surface.
For the pedestal, I removed the swirls. Because while working on the Ganesha, I had a really hard time filling in the gaps between the swirls. After the swirls were removed, I used coarse texture paste and applied it for pedestal.
For making the bells, I used air dry clay. I formed the clay in the shape of the bell and pasted it. For making the chains for the bells, I rolled two thin strings of clay and twisted them. After the clay was pasted and dried, I painted it with brown and metallic brown colour.
I etched the outlines of the Ganesha using a sharp tool. And used air dry clay to make the jewelry and the crown by rolling it into thin strings.
I further used air dry clay to give details to the Ganesha.
Once I was satisfied with the result, I started painting. I used acrylic paints to colour it. For the jewelry I used silver acrylic paint instead of gold because the background is sprayed gold.
And its all finished 😀. I know its lot of work but I really liked the dimension all these mediums (texture paste, spackling paste and air dry clay) gave.
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