Butterfly Canvas w/Dina Wakley Acrylics

Happy Tuesday Everyone!

I hope you're all having a wonderful day.  I have a fun canvas to share with you today using Dina Wakley Acrylic Paints.  These paints are lots of fun because they are a heavy body acrylic which basically means they hold their shape better when dry as opposed to regular acrylics.

I am going to stick with just a few colors...Lemon, Tangerine and Ruby.  I will also be using white gesso as well.  

I have a small canvas that was originally intended as a practice canvas for another medium...of course I didn't practice ~ I just jumped in and did my own thing so I had this canvas left over.  I applied a really quick layer of gesso with the palette knife.

I squirted two dots of Lemon onto the wet gesso and smeared it about...

For my next color (Tangerine) I squirted a bit onto my craft mat and picked it up from there as needed.

Smeared it about with no real design in mind...

Then I added just a tiny bit of the Ruby on the tip of my knife...red is a very powerful color which is why I used just a tiny bit.  I wanted just small bits here and there.

After I had applied the red I dabbed a bit of gesso onto some bubble wrap and stamped it onto the wet canvas.  I wish I could show you just how much dimension and texture was created by using the palette knife and bubble wrap.

After all of the paint & gesso had dried I stamped a bit of text (Just For Fun Rubber Stamps) onto the canvas using St. Valentine (red) StazOn Midi.

Then I started stamping my butterflies (Deep Red Stamps) with black StazOn.  I did make and use a mask to protect the initial butterfly image.

Here's what it looks like so far....

I also edged the canvas with the black StazOn to add some definition to the canvas.

And finally I added a drop shadow using oil pastels and a bit of Black Stickles glitter glue to the butterfly bodies.

 

And here is my finished canvas! I left the background canvas completely blank/white because I really wanted the butterflies to pop.

Hope you've enjoyed this project!

Be sure to stop back in again soon.