How To Make DIY Gold Leaf Abstract Art

Hey ya'll! 
I'm taking a interruption from renovation updates for a calendar week or two. I receive got so much to say you. I tin barely stand upwards the wait, but I recollect it's best to allow everything acquire finished as well as thus percentage everything.

In the meantime....

To acquire my heed off the fact that I'm living out of a Jansport as well as finding dust inwards places dust should NEVER be, 
I made some art.

 I came domicile from this awful routine early on yesterday, position on my Jesse sweatpants, position the roommates elsewhere (because every bit nosotros learned final time, Tootie as well as Cheese hate art), sat on my bed, as well as played with gilt leafage as well as paint.

It was a glorious reprieve...
from this scene currently underway inwards my entryway.

So, I attempted to create a lilliputian beauty with the chaos.

Here's my gilt leafage abstract painting.

I've been wanting to brand i for awhile now, as well as after seeing these beautiful versions here and fair share of fine art inwards the past, as well as this i is definitely a favorite. 

The gilt leafage genuinely simply makes it.

Plus, I experience similar it'll hold off adept simply virtually anywhere. Not similar I receive got whatever means of testing that theory correct now, but ya know.

For the fourth dimension being, I hung it higher upwards Bartholomew.

After all this time, I've never properly introduced you. 

You tin telephone telephone him Bart if you'd like.

So, let's run through a quick tutorial. 

The adept intelligence is that if yous possess the mightiness to smoosh pigment on a canvass as well as locomote a gum stick, yous tin practise this.

If this artistic amoeba tin practise it, anyone can.

Here's what I used to brand mine:

Glue stick

Artist's brushes

 Oil Paints (You tin too locomote acrylics.)

Gold leaf

Canvas

Heavy construction gel. I used the Galeria kind. 

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Since I was using fossil oil paints (just because I beloved the means they look), I applied my gilt leafage first. 

Oil paints receive got forever to dry, as well as this affair is even thus moisture almost 24 hours later. 

I know. It's hanging on my wall. 

Rebel.

But, anyways, if yous locomote acrylic paint, yous tin apply the gilt leafage earlier or after.

Just apply the gum wherever yous desire your gilt leafage to be. 

I swirled it roughly randomly.

Then, position a sheet of gilt leafage over the glue. This materials is flimsy as well as gets flakes everywhere if you're non careful, thus I was extra fragile with the manhand.

Welcome back, Kotter.

After allowing the gum to completely dry, I simply used a newspaper towel to milkshake off the excess leafage into a bag.

Once your gilt leafage is done, it's fourth dimension for paint. You don't receive got to practise this adjacent step, but I genuinely beloved the means it looks. I mixed inwards heavy construction gel into my pigment after I mixed it, simply to give it that 'impasto' look. It basically simply makes your pigment receive got texture as well as stand upwards out from the canvas.

I simply used a newspaper plate for my pigment mixing. Luxury.

You tin brand your fine art inwards whatever shape, color, form, or texture.

 That's what makes it abstract.

If yous purchase a pigment pack similar I did, they unremarkably come upwards with most of the basic colors. You tin mix as well as jibe them to create other colors, as well as thus add together white to lighten or dark to darken. I genuinely receive got this little color bike that I locomote when mixing pigment (affiliate link). Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 reader suggested it to me means dorsum inwards the day, as well as I've been using it e'er since.
I genuinely struggled with mixing colors when I outset started painting. Mostly because I would overmix as well as cease upwards with brown, brown, as well as to a greater extent than brown. And I've since learned that a lilliputian color mixology noesis goes a genuinely long means when making art. 
So, for those of yous who uncovering specifics helpful, that large blob inwards the below motion-picture demo (the lightest one) is reddish paint, mixed with a tiny flake of yellow, as well as thus lightened with white. 
I used a lot of that combo on this painting.

I painted on this canvass forever, tweaking it as well as blending it. Eventually, it got to a betoken where I genuinely liked it.

This is some other argue I beloved fossil oil paint. You tin snuff it along playing with it for a lot longer than yous would locomote able to if yous were using acrylics. 

There are genuinely no rules when it comes to making abstract art. 

My rule: If yous beloved it, it's art.

I'm simply a sloth epitome as well as living inwards my bed, thus my thought may non acquit all that much weight. But, simply inwards example yous were curious.  

Also, hither are the Google epitome results for sloth. 

Just to hammer domicile how I'm feeling these days.

So, here's the finished product, even thus slightly wet.

I had to receive got it downwards temporarily after I photographed it today, simply to avoid the inevitable curiosity that would've sure as shooting ended with pinkish paw prints all over my bedroom.

And a few close-ups... 

You tin genuinely run across the number the heavy construction gel has when mixed inwards with the paint.

Such a lilliputian beauty.

It's provided me with bang-up joy during my fourth dimension of need.

Almost every bit much joy every bit discovering this lilliputian jewel spell moving all of our materials final month.

You don't know Jesse, thus let's brand this a flake to a greater extent than relatable: 

Imagine finding a mass your hubby wrote when he was five. 

And it's virtually his beloved for McGyver. 

And he draws himself with pilus on his ears.

Mull that over as well as acquire dorsum to me.

That's all for today, ya'll.

Thanks for beingness here.

I'll locomote dorsum presently to percentage the hardwood flooring reveal.

That's all for today! 'Til adjacent time!

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