Nebular craft

So for today’s #make-orbake I have been crafting all day on a new canvas piece of art.

My step daughter sat opposite me doing her paintings and decided to try her hand at the canvas art I was creating too.

So both of us sat and crafted today while the boys played on their computer games. Funnily enough one was playing a space game - Elite Dangerous. The nebulas in the game are absolutely beautiful and I wanted one of my own for the wall so I set to work.

I found the colours I’d like to used and laid them out to see the colours properly. They have to be permanent markers, I believe, for this to work.

Next I needed surgical spirt and a pipette.

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And a canvas. I got this with a stand but the stand is in use for a framed friend’s present

All I did was scribble a few colours onto the canvas but I did it in a diagonal sort of fashion.

I built up the picture with blocks of colours.

Until all the canvas was covered - this really doesn’t need to be neat its a very messy art piece.

Next I took some surgical spirt with the pipette and dropped it onto the canvas.

All over it. I soaked it. It covered the canvas and the table and me but like I said messy.

Once I was happy with it I put it to one side.

As I was waiting for the canvas to dry I needed to figure out where I was going to put things.
This particular canvas is about A4 in size and I’m really picky with things so I got a piece of A4 to help me divide the canvas up into the sections I wanted.

I folded the sheet in half and cut. And the made a square for the moon and the other side was folded in half before making another square for the star as I wanted that a little smaller. I then drew an 8 point star and cut that out.

In order to get the moon shape I needed a circle and as I don’t have a compas to hand I used a bowl.

Once I had the circle I needed to fold it so I had evenly spaced lines across the circle. I then numbered it from 0 to what ever it went to but in this case it was 63.

I added sparkles to the dry canvas with glitter glue and dots I had from a left over project.
I lay the pieces onto my now dry canvas. The fairy in the corner was used to put a little shimmer around where the wings would end up with a little bit of metallic paint.

I was going to do a string art onto this canvas by sewing through it but I needed holes for that so I got my pins and stuck them trough the points I wanted. For the star it was at the points and 1cm increments down the folds (where the dots are)
For the moon I needed a pin hole at the lines around the circle from 0 to 63.

Once I had finished putting the holes in I threaded my needle with a wonderful thread that glows in the dark so the star is in a yellow glow in the dark thread. I began to sew the star first.

The thread for the moon is also glow in the dark white thread.
The moon is a little complicated I came across this on Pinterest. Yes I probably refer to Pinterest in almost every one of my posts but I love it for the ideas.
So the moon is a cardioid - this particular outcome of the string art was created using the 2 times table.

You start at 0 and continue around the circle until you get to use all the numbers at 63 in my case.

So
0 x 2 = 0
1 x 2 = 2
2 x 2 = 4
3 x 2 = 6
4 x 2 = ......... and so on using 0 as 64 and 1 as 65 and 2 as 66 etc.

Eventually you get a beautiful cardioid, I think it looks like a crescent moon.

I stitched around the edge of the moon to make the moon shape stand out more. I secured the thread I had left loose at the back with clear sellotape.

This is my completed nebular picture I really think it came out well and it’ll be joining my little one on our wall at a later date.