Sweet Pea Stamps: Aphrodites Gabriella Szabo

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Thursday, June 25, 2015

Tera presents 'Aphrodite's' by Gabriella Szabo

Hallo,
Just poppin in today to show you this sweet image by Gabriella Szabo called 'Aphrodite's'. I really like her wings and of course I always love roses. She was a dream to color.
I used polychrome pencils to color her up and then added a bit of glitter to her wings and the roses.
I layered her to some pretty shimmery gold cardstock and used a gold metallic pen on the edges of both layers and lastly added a couple gold stickers. I di blend the background a bit with OMS too....
All for today - back to my craft room for more coloring!!!!
Take Care
Tera

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stampqueen

I am about to adventure into the life of Retirement and am looking forward to significantly more time in the studio, playing with my Grandkids and traveling now and then with the hubby. I have spent 41 years as an RN - mostly in Critical Care. I picked up painting and more formal art again when my kids went from High School into college. I have always done some form of art, even in the busy years of Career, Mom, Military wife - mostly in the crafty forms(sewing, rubber stamping, its a long list...) Now I mainly paint with encaustic wax. Encaustic is an ancient art form from Greece and Egypt that uses beeswax, natural tree resin and pigments. Encaustic is painted while melted in thin layers and every layer is fused to those below with heat( I mostly use a torch). True to my 'normal' self I have 3 or 4 other hobbies that keep me busy too , and you will be seeing(and have been) those here too.

Sunday, May 17, 2015

Jane presents Aphrodites by Gabriella Szabo

Today is my day to showcase and image from Sweet Pea Stamps and I have chosen to work with the beautiful image Aphrodites by Gabriella Szabo which is available from the Sweet Pea Store in both rubber and digi.

This week I have decided on another candle, this image just shouted at me that it was the right proportions :)

To begin created the background and then placed the image without the white background. This was then printed on tissue paper and coloured with Faber Castell Polychromos pencils.

Once coloured I then mixed some Pearl Ex powders with very watery PVA glue and painted this on the wings and the light spots. I had a wee bit left over so also added some to the petals on the roses. If you would like to see how I decorate my candles I have a tutorial - click here to view.

Here you can see the two side views of the candles.