Love at first sniff with our Garden Cats

Hello, my sweet friends!

Welcome to a fun tutorial using the super cute Garden Cats stamps set.

Last week my son asked me about a combination of art techniques he wanted to use in class for a project and he wanted to know if it would work. 

His mixed media project involved creating a drawing with Manley wax crayons and then creating a background with lots of water, applying acrylic paint like crazy over the water’s surface.

After that, I think what happens if I apply his techniques with these gorgeous stamps that I love. So I imagine this lovely scene in my mind. 

First, I stamped the cats and the flowers with white embossing powder on my Art Journal double-page spread. I then applied wax crayons to the stamps and rubbed them lightly with my fingers. It doesn’t matter if we go outside the borders of the stamps.

Then it was time to play with water and acrylic paints. Only in my case, I preferred to try both spray and powder pigments.

As you can imagine, I was super upset with this result. So I started to improve it with colored pencils and distress oxide inks for the grass and flowers.

For the grass, I was applying different shades of green with the colored pencils making thin lines from bottom to top in an irregular way. And I was also covering discolored areas with the oxide inks.

In the next image, you can see the grass in more detail.