Moonlight Vintage Trailer Holiday Art

Paint Over Collage Art
I had so much fun creating this small Holiday piece of Art.  I found it only fitting that my first blog post as a Rubbermoon Creative Team member be one including a Vintage Trailer traveling under the starry Moon. Please follow along and I will demonstrate my ideas and technique.

Materials
I used just a few simple materials along with 3 Rubbermoon Stamps. This very cute tiny 3 inch Matboard Square came from a cool retailer, Inchie Arts LLC.  I coupled it along with a small wooden Easel making a fun display.  You can use paint, water color pencils, markers etc. to add color to your Holiday Art.
I will post the Rubbermoon Stamps used later in my demonstration.

Collaged Matboard

I feel that collaging underneath Art Work adds interest and fun to creating. For this piece I used Text from an Old Book and a Map of course.

Rubbermoon Stamps

The main Stamp in this Holiday Art is the wonderful Vintage Trailer: AIRLYTE
The second is a very cool Christmas Tree stamp: Tree w/ Lights db2590e.
Last but certainly not least is the tiny version of the very popular "New moon" These will be available on Rubbermoon Etsy Shop soon.
Be sure to lightly Gesso before stamping onto your Matboard.

Making it Christmas Art

Now comes the really fun part. Making it into Christmas Art of your own!  I did this by drawing a Christmas tree on top of the Trailer and adding a string of Christmas Lights to the side. I was very lucky to find the text, "Merry Christmas" from an old book and I pasted it to the matboard, outlining it using a graphite pencil.  After this,  just paint onto the Matboard or use markers to make it "your own" work of Art. I dotted the sky around the moon with a White Paint Sharpie marker to create tiny stars around the little moon.

Merry Christmas Vintage Trailer

Once again, a pic of the final piece. I had so much fun and hope you do too!
Until next time! -BARB

Moondancing, Moondust and Musings

How does one write her first RubberMoon Creative Team tutorial without including a moon?  Well, quite obviously from the title I did not go against the tide.  Instead,  I embraced everything about the moon.  In real life, I love the moon in all its phases.  I'm kind of fond of stars, too.  There's so much peace in just staring at the starscape that's been around for eons and beyond.  It helps me gain perspective and realize that "big things" in my life are really just tiny and fleeting. I am just tiny and fleeting. Well, at least fleeting.  I also must confess that I still wish on stars.  ALL. OF. THE. TIME.

I decided my color scheme would be black/white and gold (which actually is Golden Fluid Bronze)  and that my final piece would be put in a 5" x 7" black IKEA frame.   I set about getting my supplies out and decided to use up some scraps of Studio Cloth that were sitting on my desk.  Studio Cloth is a high end floor cloth material that comes in rolls from USArtQuest.  I cut the cloth to the desired size  (whatever size you feel works with the mat size)  with an Xacto knife and put out the black paint and gesso on a scrap plastic lid. I like to create more movement in the paint so I lightly spray the cloth surface with water before adding paint. 

I used a thin flat brush to begin to spot add black paint sporadically down the cloth. After adding the black, I heated the cloth to dry and went back and used white gesso to bring out the white again from the spreading of the black.

Once it was dried again, I spot added stripes of bronze throughout the cloth.  I heated the cloth dry on both sides again.

 

Now the fun was about to being.  I took my favorite RubberMoon stamps and began designing the background. StazOn works very well for this as long as you have a recently reinked pad. The gesso also does it's job as a ground and keeps the ink in place while it is drying.

Check them out when you have a chance!  Actually, check the whole catalog out.  This is only the tip of the iceberg. 

joy

Sprinkle Moondust Spread Magic

Moondancing is Strongly Encouraged

Ten Small Starflowers

Once the background was finished, I began to think of embellishments.  I wanted the flow of the piece to be in the stripes so I began picking out different fibers that could be added and I knew I wanted to continue the gold tones in beads and charms.  All were attached with Perfect Paper Adhesive matte.....my favorite glue for this type of project. BIG HINT:  Do not trim fibers until everything is completely dry or the fibers will become loose again with the pulling. I also pulled out the Bronze paint and filled in the empty stars to bring out that luscious metallic color.

While the fibers were drying, I took the opportunity to take apart the frame and decorate the mat.  I used two different sizes of Sharpies and hand drew stripes and then sporadically added a hint of bronze to bring out that metallic to the mat.    It makes the design more cohesive to have the mat working with the focal piece. Do not try to draw them perfectly. That's part of the charm.  

I added a piece of old text to the mat and raised the focal cloth with pop squares so the artwork would appear to float within the frame.

This can be put under glass as long as the embellishments are not too deep or the pop squares can be skipped to allow room under the glass.  For more samples of projects like this one, head to the gallery on my website.  To follow my current artwork, find me on facebook at Nancy Curry Art or if you love goofy poodles and my daily foibles, friend me at Nancy Sanderson Curry . RubberMoon can be found on facebook, their main website, or the blog here (where you are at!) Stay tuned for the rest of the creative team.  They will knock your socks off!  Goodnight, Moon.