DIY 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 nation you. I tin dismiss barely stand upward the wait, but I call back it's best to allow everything acquire finished as well as and thence part everything.

In the meantime....

To acquire my hear 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, seat on my Jesse sweatpants, seat the roommates elsewhere (because every bit nosotros learned terminal time, Tootie as well as Cheese hate art), sat on my bed, as well as played with aureate leafage as well as paint.

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

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

Here's my aureate leafage abstract painting.

I've been wanting to brand 1 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 1 is definitely a favorite.

The aureate leafage truly but makes it.

Plus, I experience similar it'll await practiced but nearly anywhere. Not similar I receive got whatsoever agency of testing that theory correct now, but ya know.

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

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

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

So, let's run through a quick tutorial.

The practiced tidings is that if you lot possess the mightiness to smoosh pigment on a canvass as well as purpose a mucilage stick, you lot tin dismiss do this.

If this artistic amoeba tin dismiss do it, anyone can.

Here's what I used to brand mine:

Glue stick

Artist's brushes

Oil Paints (You tin dismiss too purpose acrylics.)

Gold leaf

Canvas

Heavy construction gel. I used the Galeria kind.

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Since I was using stone oil paints (just because I honey the agency they look), I applied my aureate leafage first.

Oil paints accept forever to dry, as well as this affair is withal moisture almost 24 hours later.

I know. It's hanging on my wall.

Rebel.

But, anyways, if you lot purpose acrylic paint, you lot tin dismiss apply the aureate leafage earlier or after.

Just apply the mucilage wherever you lot desire your aureate leafage to be.

I swirled it around randomly.

Then, seat a sheet of aureate leafage over the glue. This materials is flimsy as well as gets flakes everywhere if you're non careful, thence I was extra frail with the manhand.

Welcome back, Kotter.

After allowing the mucilage to completely dry, I but used a newspaper towel to milk shiver off the excess leafage into a bag.

Once your aureate leafage is done, it's fourth dimension for paint. You don't receive got to do this adjacent step, but I truly honey the agency it looks. I mixed inwards heavy construction gel into my pigment after I mixed it, but to give it that 'impasto' look. It basically but makes your pigment receive got texture as well as stand upward out from the canvas.

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

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

That's what makes it abstract.

If you lot purchase a pigment pack similar I did, they ordinarily come upward with most of the basic colors. You tin dismiss mix as well as represent them to create other colors, as well as and thence add together white to lighten or dark to darken. I truly receive got this little color bike that I purpose when mixing pigment (affiliate link). Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 reader suggested it to me agency dorsum inwards the day, as well as I've been using it e'er since.
I truly struggled with mixing colors when I showtime started painting. Mostly because I would overmix as well as terminate upward with brown, brown, as well as to a greater extent than brown. And I've since learned that a piddling color mixology cognition goes a truly long agency when making art.
So, for those of you lot who notice specifics helpful, that large blob inwards the below ikon demo (the lightest one) is reddish paint, mixed with a tiny flake of yellow, as well as and thence 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 truly liked it.

This is some other argue I honey stone oil paint. You tin dismiss croak on playing with it for a lot longer than you lot would move able to if you lot were using acrylics.

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

My rule: If you lot honey it, it's art.

I'm but a sloth ikon as well as living inwards my bed, thence my persuasion may non acquit all that much weight. But, but inwards example you lot 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, withal slightly wet.

I had to accept it downward temporarily after I photographed it today, but to avoid the inevitable curiosity that would've sure ended with pinkish paw prints all over my bedroom.