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Featured Artist: Bernadette Huff
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Bernadette |
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Introduction
I was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where I studied fine arts for two years at Boyce College.
After college, my interests turned to sewing, fiber arts and quilt making
for nearly 10 years. Working with fibers and fabric was enjoyable but
once I moved to Florida, I found quilts and wall hanging were
impractical for the Florida sun. I soon turned to my first passion:
painting.
The years of working with vivid color in fabric soon found a place on my
painting palette. I enjoyed using bright, vibrant colors to express
myself, but found I still yearned to work with fabric and fibers. That’s
where the mixed media and smaller fiber arts came into play. I could
still paint fabric, sew by hand, hand embroider and embellish with found
objects. The two styles became one for me.
There are days where I enjoy pure painting and there are days where you
will find me gluing and embedding objects, paper and small treasures to
canvas or wood. But no matter what the day is, I am happy creating. |
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Bernadette's Top 5
ARTchix Products
1.
Elegance collage sheet
2.
Brass Decorative Corners
3.
Wings of Fancy collage sheet
4. Over the Moon collage sheet
5. Brass
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Bernadette's Website
www.
BernadetteHuff.com |
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Artwork #1: Antique Wall Plaques |
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ARTchix Products
Elegance collage sheet
Brass Decorative Corners
General Supplies
Small Canvas board (6 X 8)
Gesso
Palette knife
Acrylic paints and glazes
Paper towels
Large soft paint brush (2 to 3 inch wide)
Gold metallic pen
Wood plaque (optional) |
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Instructions
Select your picture from the
collage sheet then place it in the center of the canvas board and trace
around it, leaving a small penciled window in the center of the canvas.
With your palette knife, spread the gesso all around the canvas, leaving
the window in the center untouched. You want a good amount of gesso so
you can form mounds and peaks for texture; I went at least ¼ to ½ inch
thick. Once you apply the gesso, use your knife to make mounds by
lifting the knife up off the gesso. This will give you great texture.
You will need to let it dry completely. It may take over night, so be
patient.
Once the surface is dry, you can paint it. I started with blue and purple
acrylic. Get your brush good and wet and dip the brush in both colors to
give a nice variation. Let the paint bleed and run into the nooks and
crannies. While still wet, take a paper towel and spread it on top of
the wet painted surface and lift some of the color up. Don’t worry if
you get white spots, you will repeat this until you get the color you
desire. Let it dry. I then used red with lots of water and repeated the
process. After you get the desired background color you want, apply a
coat of Golden acrylic yellow ochre glaze. This pulls the colors
together. Once dry, use a dry, flat, stiff brush to highlight the
surface with iridescent rich copper acrylic paint, let dry and repeat
with antique gold. I used Liquitex acrylic paint.
Note: be sure not to add water to the paint or brush, as you want a
dry brush effect. This allows the paint to just hit the top surface with
high lights of metallic color.
Glue the picture in the center and trace around the edges with a gold
metallic pen. Affix the brass decorative corners in place.
Optional:
You can then mount your canvas to a painted wood plaque of your choice,
attach a hanger on back and it is ready to hang.
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