Beautiful Aquatic Flora and Fauna

Hi,

I am here today with a very special project that is very close to my heart as this is my 1st try with air dry clay and I am super happy with the outcome. All the floral and fauna are handmade without using any moulds and are super easy to make.

Materials Used For Flora & Fauna:

• Daisy Air Dry Clay
• Embossing Tools & Carving Tools 
• Ranger Dylusions Paint - After Mid Night
• Ranger Dylusion Paint - Dirty Martini
• Prima Art Alchemy Finnabair Acylic Paint - Metallic Silver Spoon
• Prima Art Alchemy Finnabair Acylic Paint - Metallic Ancient Coin
• Fevicryl Acrylic Paint - Pearl Silver Metallic 351
• Fevicryl Acrylic Paint - Sparkling Pearl Golden Yellow 907
• Fevicryl Acrylic Paint - Pearl Orange 317
• Fevicryl Acrylic Paint - Sky Blue 63
• Fevicryl Acrylic Paint Orange 17
• Fevicryl Acrylic Paint Sparkling Pear Golden Green 911 
• Inka - Gold Jade Green
• Nuvo Embellishment Mousse - Fresh Copper 

Materials Used For Background:

• A4 size wooden ply or can use a flat back canvas
• Price tags & thread strings to add texture (Inspired by videos from Maremi Small Art by Marta Łapkowska)
• Itsy Bitsy Little Birdie 2 in 1 paste 
• Lindy's Starburst Spray - Hydrangea Blue
• Lindy's Starburst Spray - Tiffany Blue
• Cosmic Shimmer Spray - Meadow Lush 
• Ranger Distress Oxide Ink - Spiced Marmalade 
• Ranger Texture Paste
• Pie Lane wave stencil 
• Ranger Distress Glaze
• Icraft Clear drops 

For Sentiment:

• Concord & 9th Perfectly Penned Stamp Set 
• Ranger Archival Black Ink
• Ranger Glossy Accents
• White Cardstock 

General Supplies:

• Ranger Dina Wakley Gel Medium
• Ranger Glossy Accents
• Paint Brush 
• Pallet Knife
• Glue gun

Steps to create:

Though its difficult to explain the process of making this layout, I have tried to describe it in short:

Flora & Fauna:

• Make all the flora and fauna using air dry clay by manually shaping the clay (no fancy moulds needed) and let it dry for 24 hours before colouring. Use some embossing tools and carving tools to add texture to clay pieces. (The Octopus was inspired from the video tutorial from Gabrielle Pollacco).
• Paint the flora and fauna with your favorite colours. Once dry, apply Nuvo Mousse or Inka Gold to highlight the texture.
• Tip: To avoid Acrylic Paint from chipping once dry, mix some Gel medium to the paints before coloring to make them permanent.

Background:

• Adhere some price tags and thread strings on ply with help of gel medium. 
• Thin some 2 in 1 paste and apply on the entire background as gesso. 
• Once dry, colour using spray inks. Once the inks are dry, smoosh Oxide ink on different spots to balance the colours of the flora & fauna.
• Splatter some of the spray ink using brush. 
• Seal the background using Distress Glaze.
• Apply texture paste through stencils on various parts.

Putting it together:

• Adhere the flora and fauna to the background with help of glue gun.
• Stamp the sentiment on cardstock and adhere to background using glue.
• Add Glossy Accent on the sentiments.
• To finish, adhere  clear drops using Glossy Accents.

Hope you all love the layout as much as I love it. If you do like it, please leave some love in the comments below. 

Love,

Dr. Neha Sanwalka Rungta

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