Sometimes things don't .............

.............. quite work out as you want them to.

I promise not to continue the theme of the last post - when I basically moaned about my day.  But the day before that I had decided to finish the mixed media topper - or rather start it - from the evening with the Mold II ladies last week.  On last Sundays post when I showed the Mold II photos of their mixed media cards I mentioned I hadn't had time to do mine during the evening & that also I would do mine in pale colours rather than the black finish for a change.

So! I laid out my pieces;

The colours you can see on it are the actual colours of the pieces I used.

My next step was to cover it all with white Gesso;

Things going quite well at the moment.

I then spent a little time thinking about the next stage.  What pale colours was I going to use & what medium would they be in.

For some strange reason I decided on an overall cover of a shade of pink.  Which I arrived at by mixing red acrylic paint with white Gesso.

Mistake number 1

What on earth was I thinking & where am I going to go from here.

Well, I decided to paint the pieces in different colours.

Mistake number 2 & total disaster.

I hate it.

After staring at it for a while I realised one of the things I did wrong was to layout such a symmetrical design.  The nice thing about this technique is the randomness of it.  

So where did my randomness disappear too.

It is now sitting on my desk as a reminder of what not to do.

I am going to produce another one over the next few days & have had the thought that I could use some of my shimmer sprays instead of acrylic paints.  That's the idea anyway.

I thought I would show this to you to just show how easy it is to get things wrong if you don't think them through.

Tomorrow I will have the photos of the CSNW project from Wednesday night.

'Bye for now.