Mother's Day picture
By Jayne Daimo.
The materials are sponsored by: www.detkreativeunivers.dk
Mother's Day is very special to me because my children have not only sent me a bouquet of flowers, but they have been very inventive. We have gone on nice trips together, and they have always surprised me with something special. Suddenly we lived far apart, so the three of us couldn't meet up so easily.
In 2020, I received a Denmark card with a heart on it, in Jutland, Funen and Zealand. The text under the card was Mother's Day: "Distance means so little when someone means so much". You want to hold on to the love from your children, and I do that by looking at that card every day. It doesn't replace being with them, but it evokes a nice feeling. I have therefore chosen to share that experience so that others have the opportunity to make a mother happy, on Mother's Day, and long after.
I have used the following products:
A small canvas
Molds for self-drying clay
Heavy body paste (for gluing clay on with)
Relief paste (for places where the clay may gape a little when it dries)
Gesso to prime with so that all paint sticks better
Different colors Metallic finger wax
A brown and black ink
Letters and glue to mount them with
A paintbrush
This is how I did it:
I mixed a little from both molds. I used the top and bottom of the airship. Instead of the house, I placed a heart from the other mold.
I press the self-drying clay into the part of the mold I want to use. I immediately take it out and glue it to my canvas with Heavy body glue. Once I have created the motif I want, I let it dry.
You can also just roll out some self-drying clay with a rolling pin, and use a heart cookie cutter, or whatever you want to make.
When the clay is dry, give the whole thing a coat of Gesso with a paintbrush. The entire canvas should also be covered, plus the edges.
If the gesso is dry, I may give cracks and release a little “repair relief paste”.
Then I lightly paint some finger wax on with my fingers, in the colors I want.
I glue the letters on with Magicfix, which is a quick-drying glue.
The final touch to the work is a little stamping ink through a stencil, or a stamp, and then both brown and black ink around the edge to highlight the image.
