The Equinox

  Hi Antony here!

Today's project is a follow on from another canvas of mine,

"Celestial Love" Once again I've written a short verse to go along with

it and a little music video too. Before I get into the crafting part of this post,

here's both the verse and video for the canvas, "The Equinox"

The Moon had written his love for the Sun

using the brightest stars in the midnight sky.

As the cogs of time turned and night became

day, the union of love between the Sun

and the Moon got ever closer.

Mother Nature peered out to gaze upon them

both, as they met in the warm morning sky.

She smiled as she slowly rose into the sky and

encircled them both with her mighty majestic wings.

“I will call this union of your love, The Equinox”

she said“ Love each other equally and you'll

blossom forever”

And so until the end of time, the Sun and

the Moon loved one another.

©2021 Antony James Minnis

Ok... now to a bit of crafting!

As I mentioned this canvas was a follow on from my previous one, so

I've mainly used the same techniques to achieve a similar look.

The main difference is the textured background.

Step 1 Using an old shirt, I ripped it into strips of about 10cm wide. Next came

the slightly messy bit! I filled a small plastic bowl with a product from Prima

called Sculpture Medium. It's a fabric hardening medium that is similar to

Powertex. However unlike projects coated with Powertex, the finished item

isn't weather proof.

Step 2 I massaged the Sculpture medium into the material until is was

thoroughly soaked. I left it soaking whilst I took a 6mm sheet of MDF and

stuck some hessian pieces on. I used the Sculpture Medium as a glue to

stick these on and paint over them.

Taking the soaked pieces of material, I then placed them onto the canvas,

making sure they had plenty of folds in. The Sculpture Medium on the

soak material was enough to stick this to the MDF sheet too.

Step 3 Using art balls of various sizes, I mixed them together with the

Sculpture Medium paint, into a gritty paste. Using an old paint brush I then

scooped up the paste and applied it to areas of the canvas. I then left the

canvas to dry overnight before painting over everything once more with the

Sculpture Medium paint. Once again I left this overnight to dry, but you

can force dry it with a craft heat tool if you wish.

Step 4 Once dry I painted over the entire surface with some black acrylic

paint. Once that was dry I then started to dry brush on a magenta acrylic

paint, followed by a turquoise coloured acrylic paint.

I went over both colours with a second coat to make sure the colours

could be seen on the black. Next, using a copper coloured gilding wax,

I went over the highpoints on the textured areas to help them stand

out more. Finally I used Starlight paints from Imagination

Crafts, to dry brush on to selected areas to add a bit of sparkle.

Step 5 Once the background was dry, I started to add the 3D embellishments

that i'd made using clay from FMM and moulds from Prima. If you want

to find out the process for colouring them, please take a look at my other

canvas "Celestial Love" and Step 2 in it.

 The only difference with the embellishments in this canvas, is that after

applying the 3 colours of gilding paint, I then dry brushed on some turquoise

coloured acrylic paint to help give it a sort of verdigris/aged look. 

Hope you enjoyed this blog post.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!

Antony