Denim dreams

Ok, it was supposed to be a dream

but turned into a nightmare

well, kinda

in the grand scheme of things it is just a canvas 

and a bit of time spent messing around 

so a disappointment rather than a nightmare perhaps

I was totally inspired by Finnabair's denim journal and knew I wanted to stick a piece of denim to a canvas

that was the easy bit & as far as I got

worked on it for two days then lost my way with it last night

hated it

knew what I wanted to do but no idea how to achieve it

just "doing it" wasn't helping

sat staring at it for a long, long time

sat staring at all the pots of gel and paste

inks and paints

not a clue!

but really should have by now

so had a mini-meltdown on FB

and encouraged by wonderful friends approached it afresh this morning

taken all day to tweak it

paint it out

tweak some more

but finally figured enough was enough and can do no more

can see so, so many errors in it

but ... sit down for this folks ...

don't hate it anymore!

The denim is actually dark blue but shows almost black here

If it photographs any better tomorrow in the daylight then I will pop back and edit this post

note: have popped back and edited
replaced original large photo' to show better colours
but have left the close-up shots 

INGREDIENTS:

Stretched canvas : Piece of denim

Black Archival Inkpad

Tim Holtz Flourish Stencil

Stamp from Finnabair - no idea what it is called

Art Basics (Finnabair / Prima Marketing) 

White Gesso : Soft Gloss Gel: Heavy Body Gel : 3D Gloss Gel

Art Ingredients (Finnabair / Prima Marketing)

Mica powders : Bottle Green, Green Opal Magic, Lilac Opal Magic, Deep Water, Purple, Frozen Lake, Teal

Glass Glitter : Midnight Blue

Micro Beads : Berry
Melange Art Pebbles

Art Alchemy (Finnabair / Prima Marketing)

Metallique Acrylic Paint : Deep Water, Vintage Rose, Pink Blue, 

Silver Spoon, Violet Green

Ranger Distress Spray Stain

Broken China, Stormy Sky, Evergreen Bough, Dusty Concord

Wilted Violet, Faded Jeans,  Bundled Sage

Perfect Pearls Mists

Blue Raspberry, Grape Fizz, Mint

Miscellaneous

Prozac, Jack Daniels