Sunday 30 December 2012

Tainted Love - Nigel's Desert Island CJ

I chose Soft Cell's Tainted Love for Nigel's CJ as I had an immediate vision of a tattered heart from love that had been taken from it's new and pure state to a battered and tainted state. I used paint and gesso and heated it to within an inch of it's life until it was bubbling and bursting and hopefully it's achieved the look I was after.





Close up you can see the dimension and texture created by the heated paint. The background stamp is Tim Holtz from Mixed Media. Hope it's ok Nigel :) - Sian

9 comments:

  1. Oh Sian - that's fabulous I like the fact you heated it to within an inch of it's life!

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  2. Loving the textured look, very cool

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  3. I was thinkng of doing this one when I got Nigel's song list, I was going to go down the leather and studs look *a la Marc Almond* lol ... butI didn't have any, so didn't do it !! Love your take though x

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  4. Superb! Love the colour and the reasoning behind it all. Thank you :) x

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  5. Looks great - and that heart is definitely tainted :)

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  6. Oh love the heating technique. I'll have to give that a try.

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  7. I love the colours and the large heart inside- :)

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