Collaging and painting part 2/mini Tutorial

I stayed up till 1 last nite painting on the Friends picture...heres what it looked like when i went to bed...



And after several more hours of painting and stamping and stenciling this is what we look like now...and more collaging...We are all thinner and younger...artists perogative!!



The other one took very little time...
I started with one of the backgrounds I had collaged yesterday using scraps of fabric and paper ephemera and gel medium. I tried the modge podge i have been aging on one of them and didnt like the way it behaved so I used the gel medium...matte finish...



First I drew my shoes that Bella ate yesterday on a piece of paper...I cut them out and traced their shape moving them around till i liked the composition.

Then I drew the insides of the shoes and the straps...

This is the shoes traced

Next I used watered down black paint to paint them so that the collaging would show thru...it went really fast...now does anyone have a new catch for a pair of black Merrils??? These are my favorite shoes and now one strap doesnt work...sigh...and they fall off my feet...double sigh....if nothing else i will sew them on with upholstery thread