Fleur-dr-lis

This is a Fleur-de-lis I bought at Hobby Lobby this last fall.  So it's been setting around here waiting for the holidays to be over, kinda waiting it's turn. I love Fleur-de-lis and have quite a few fleur-de-lis stamps.  It  began as a plain chipboard cut out, only 3 layers thick.  This morning I drug and began a to formulate what I wanted to do to it so I could enter it in the Unruly Paper Arts RAQ1: Fleur-de-lis.  I knew about what colors I wante to use, because I want to hang it in the hallway.  Unruly Paper Arts RAQ2: Joie de Vivre! or Joy of Living with a French flair.  So I rolled them together and this what I ended up with.  I painted it with a mix of Yellow Ocher and Gesso, while it was wet I laid a printed picture of the Eiffel Tower and a print of an old wine label, face down onto the wet Gesso and let it dry.  Then I wet my fingers and GENTLY started rubbing away the paper.  Then I added some Fleur-de-lis stamp images, and stenciled areas.  At the top and in the middle are pieces of grunge board, these are the pieces that were in between the cutout pieces.  Painted them Burnt Umber and glued them on. 


It still looked kinda flat and dull, so I took a damp pom pom, dipped into the Burnt Umber and gave it a wash, much better, but still needed something, so I added some gold leafing here and there, oops! too bright! But a wash of the same burnt Umber took care of that.  As I painted the edges black a pulled the brush toward the face and got a dry brush around the edges.

 

Here is a close up of the bottom where the wine label was adhered.

Here is a close shot of the top

 

Like Fleur-de-lis and Paris themed projects? Then be sure to go to:

 

 http://unrulypaperarts.blogspot.com/p/raq-1.html for the Fleur-de-lis
and
http://unrulypaperarts.blogspot.com/p/raq-2.html for the Joie de Vivre

Here is my Fleur-de-lis hanging, in the hall, next to my framed wine labels.  What do you think?