Decorated Bird House

I don't know if you've noticed in your Blog surfing, lots of people have been decorating bird houses.

I've had one for ages and decided I wanted to do something with it.

Recently I did a class at Paper Arts with Andy Skinner and learnt a new technique: carved gesso.

I used it on the back of the bird house

I have been collecting bottle tops for a while and wanted to incorporate some. I filled the backs with air dry clay to make it easier to stick them on.  I chose an alcohol inked and stamped background as the base and stuck the bottle tops on

 

I then stuck to the opposite side a piece of canvas that I had used a resist technique and then painted.  It looked very sea like so I added a seagull and some waves.

I chose pink for the front and used Dylusions bubblegum pink mixed with an iridescent medium

The penants have been cut from an overlay from a computer keyboard.

 

It wasn't drying very quickly so I decided to give it a blast with the heat gun, hence the blisters!

I rather liked the effect so added more paint and heated it again.

 

The roof is covered in sea glass, stuck on with a hot glue, I used a glittered glue stick, so it looked as though the sun was reflecting off the glass.

and finished

Thanks for dropping by.

 

Lynne x

Comments

[Eleanor]

This is gorgeous Lynne, so many different techniques, a unique piece.
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xx