Olga Ravenskaya: The Old Park Canvas for Lindy's/Холст "Старый парк" для Lindy's

Привет всем, девочки!

Сегодня день моей публикации в Lindy's, и на этот раз у меня холст, который я назвала "Старый парк".

Назвала я его так не случайно. Обожаю старые парки, знаете, такие - "непричесанные", за которыми уже давно никто не следит, со следами былой роскоши, заброшенными фонтанами, заросшими тропинками и бурной растительностью, где роскошные цветы легко уживаются со старыми сухими деревьями и цветущим кустарником.

А еще больше я люблю такие места в Санкт-Петербурге. Каждый раз, приезжая в этот невероятный город, мы с подругой выбираемся на прогулку по какому-нибудь из парков - бродим, болтаем, обсуждаем всё на свете, молчим. И вот, вспоминая эти счастливые моменты, я сделала холст о старом парке, а к нему МК по созданию фона.

Дублирую пост и МК, как я писала его для Lindy's, буду рада, если что-то окажется полезным и интересным для вас!

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Hi dear Lindy's friends!

It's Olga Ravenskaya with you today and I'd like to share my new canvas, using gorgeous Lindy's sprays, magicals and powders of purple and brown shades.

I was inspired by memories of my trip to Saint Petersburg, one of my favorite cities in the world, and by walking in its beautiful old parks with fountains, overgrown paths, blooming trees and tones of flowers.

And I'd like to show you how I created the background for my canvas.

I begin every project by choosing a color scheme and Lindy's products according to it. For this piece I chose beautiful purple, violet and brown colors, this is my (a bit vintage looking), choice of Lindy's.

To begin with I glued bits of different lace using transparent medium and then covered all the surface with a white gesso.

I wanted to make the very bottom layer striped so I glued stripes of washi tipe as on the photo below to leave canvas under them white. Also you may use for this purpose masking tape.

I covered the canvas with two starbursts - Whale Watch Blue and French Lilac Violet - mixing them with each other, and at the end sprinkled a bit with Tea Pot Purple magical to make additional shimmer. Then I removed stripes of washi tipe, look at this beautiful striped effect below.

Next step - I added partialy white modelling paste through a stencil.

When it dried I decided to add more colors using three different shades of purple - Magnolia Magenta Gold, Poppin' Pink and Frenchy's Pink Pouf. I added them with a brush trying to follow paste pattern.

After that I added stamps using waterproof Stazon inks. Ussually I love black stamping but in this case I wanted to make my canvas softer so my choice was Spiced Chai and Gothic Purple inks, they perfectly complimented purple&violet background.

I decided to add some extra texture, so I mixed Alpine Ice Rose and Magnolia Magenta Gold shakers with the white modeling paste...

and added this mixture through the flower stencil. And one more thing - I added partially a gold petal using transparent gloss gel to give a bit aged look.

The background is ready!

And several photos of the finished canvas...

Lindy's Products

Starbursts: Whale Watch Blue, French Lilac Violet, Magnolia Magenta Gold, California Poppy Gold

Flat Fabio: Frenchy's Pink Pouf, Poppn' Pink

Magicals: Tea Pot Purple

Shakers: Alpine Ice Rose, Magnolia Magenta Gold

Embossing Powders: Hi Maintenance Magenta, Caesar's Gold, Midnight Copper, Bratwurst Brown

Other Products

Ranger Multi Medium Gloss, Finnabair Opaque modeling paste and White Gesso, Scrapiniec and Fluffy Duffy chipboard, Prima Marketing flowers and resin, Finnabair Art stones, flower soft, lace.

Hope you've enjoyed this post and thank you so much for your attention!

Have a nice day!

Olga

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It's my entry into the gorgeous April Challenge at Mixed Media Place, I was inspired by beautiful color pallet of the moodboard and the feeling of calmness, relaxation and bliss.