Artaste January Challenge

Thanks  Artaste for this Challenge,

At first I saw the bricks  and thought, i have lots of papers with bricks,  this should be easy, but then i thought about the photos of the boys, that threw me as i dont have any kids dressed up like that,
I was talking to a friend who also does challenge  and she mentioned what about wall art, yes, i have photos of this i though, so out came the photos, but of course it was either too busy together or the wrong  colours,

So by the 28th january, i thought, that i was defeated, i said to myself, i wont do this one, leave it,

on the 29th january, i decided to go though some of my unfinished layouts and try and finish them , why  did i not finish them. and out fell 3 photos  i picked them up off the floor and thought, Artaste challenge, it has all the right colours, even the photos were already matted, so  then ideas started to flow

I started with the painting of the bricks, using Liquitex modelling paste i then got out Mont marte pastel Gliders ( i dont know why they are called pastel, as none of the colours are pastel )  i rubbed the colours required on my finger and spread it over the bricks, have you tried these they are great to use, so many uses,
you can use it neat use a blending tool for blending the colours and spray some water on a clear block and add it and mix and you have water colours,

With the title, i used the modelling paste again ,then blotted on   different colours and blended them together for a mottled

look, then applied glossy accents on top
 Thanks again Artaste, looking forward to seeing next weeks challenge and doing it after i come back from holidays