Trinity

I have recently purchased a new stash of vintage embellishments and today was drawn to three metal stars. 

I decided to build the entire artwork around these small element, something that I find myself often doing. In thinking about stars, my thoughts drifted in both spiritual and celestial directions and I wanted to reflect both of these concepts in my artwork.

I started with a blank 4x4 inch cradled wood panel and added a layer of green paint.

Using black gesso, I dry brushed a second layer to add more depth and to cut the brightness of the green.

The next step was embossing using a grungy background rubber stamp, a watermark stamp pad, and aged copper embossing powder.

Happy with the background and well aware that this was an abstract rather than a literal interpretation of the night sky, I moved on to create the foreground components. My focus was on circles, with respect to both celestial (orbiting planets) and spiritual (the circle of life)

thinking. 

Wanting to add a bit of copper to connect with the copper embossing powder I had used on the surface of the panel, I dug into my stash and found the perfect copper disc to use as one layer.

This ring was created using two dies, one from Spellbinders Standard Circles Small and one from Spellbinders Standard Circles Large, and hand painted paper layered with metallic acrylic paint.

This circular disc was cut and embossed with Spellbinders Standard Circles Large and red foil from Spellbinders Media Mixage Foil Pack.

I chose to use black card stock for my next element, to ground the work and to add contrast to the brighter green, red and metallic elements. I cut it using Spellbinders Sprightly Sprockets die cut set.

I backed the four open holes of this piece with red foil.

The central focus of this piece was made next using a die from Spellbinders Gold Facet die set coupled with a die from Spellbinders Standard Circles Large. I cut a piece of gold foil and used a sanding block to tone done the brightness and bring up the silver metal under the gold surface.

This piece was also backed with red foil.

Because the three gold stars were not solid, I decided to back them as well - two with red foil and one with black card stock.

I also grabbed a metal hitch fastener to eventually place in the center of the Gold Facet die cut.

My favorite part...putting it all together.

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Supply List

Spellbinders Paper Art Supplies:

GC-001 Spellbinders^TM Grand Caibur® Machine

GC-015 Spellbinders^TM Grand Calibur® Junior Magnetic Placement Mat

F-012 Spellbinders^TM  Precious Metals Premium Craft Foils Assortment 

S5-203 Spellbinders^TM Imperial Gold Shapeabilities®  Gold Facets

S5-048 Spellbinders^TM Shapeabilities® Sprightly Sprockets 

S4-114 Spellbinders^TM Nestabilities® Standard Circles Large

S4-116 Spellbinders^TM Nestabilities® Standard Circles Small

Preferred Promotional Partners: Tsukineko VersaMark watermark stamp pad

Other: cradled wood panel, acrylic paint, gesso, embossing powder, paint brush, rubber stamp, card stock, metal embellishments, sanding block, scissors, heat gun, adhesive