Butterfly Anatomy

Butterfly Anatomy

Posted by DecoArt on May 29th 2017

My inspiration for this came from Michael Demeng, I love his assemblage art work and colours.

Items Needed:

Instructions:

I had acquired a resin torso sculpture and decide to give it a make over and applied a variety of embellishments using DecoArt Media Liquid Glass

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Once dry I applied Media White Gesso.

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Applied a second coat as the original finish was very dark.

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Applied Media Crackle Paste with a brush to the base and to areas of the torso.

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Started by applying DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylic Quinacridone Gold.

Resulting in fabulous crackle texture.

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Started by applying DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylic Quinacridone Gold.

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Followed by Burnt Umber and Prussian Blue, spritzing the colour and allowing to run until happy with the coverage.

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Same process to the base.

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Stamped with Stazon Midnight and Teal around the base and build up the density of colour with light brush strokes.

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Applied Quinacridone Gold and Prussian Blue to some paper butterflies.

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Base detail.

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Close up detail.

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