mernaid queen

 The first post of 2018, so I would like to wish everyone a very happy New Year, even if it is a bit late.
I have a sample from the  Chocolate Baroque seaside tv show in December to show you  today.
A 7" canvas board, that started out being sprayed with some very elderly blue and green glimmer mist sprays,....no idea which were the actual colours, just the ones that surprisingly stillworked!
I used some pearlescent paste through a wood grain stencil to represent movement in the water, then sprayed again with the blue that worked. I sponged blue acrylic paint through the silhousilhouette ette palace stencil, then randomly across the canvas below it to ground the building.
The mermaid queen was  stamped onto white card with black versafine, clear embossed, then painted using equally elderly H2O paints. I fussy cut her out, and also several shells and the starfish to create the foreground. I used micro beads glued below the shells to create the sand on the sea bed, though they don't show up on the photo.
The small mermaid was stamped directly onto the board using distress ink, as I wasn't worried about a clear image. The bubbles were some very ancient pearl drops in silver - it's surprsing what you find when you are forced to do a major clear up!