Mixed technique on canvas

And this week it's gonna be about working on canvas in mixed technique: papers, scraps, tissue papers, gesso, paint. Next comes something floral, I guess, and some stenciling. Stay tuned.

Repainting maribowls

Today I'm gonna share a quick'n'easy accidental project that I haven't planned, and that came to life because of a fault of mine. I've bought a couple of those fancy maribowls at second hand, though I do not think they are the originals. I took a red one and a turquoise one. And happily put them into the dishwasher. The red one didn't appreciate and lost its colour. 

And since nothing is safe with me anymore from getting re-painted, and I put my brushes on nearly everything, the maribowl didn't escape that destiny. I do not care that much about the opaque look, it fits nicely. So now I might get back to the second hand shop to pick a couple more and play with other colours.

Some finishing touches

And besides (I simply didn't want to put shots of different kind together in one post, so that explains why there's the second one this evening):

I've got this little turquoise flower vase (my love for this colour now knows obviously no limits) at a second hand shop, so that I could style up those canvas and folder I've been talking about at the beginning of the week. 

Making stencils

Now cutting stencils is getting slightly obsessive - this time I went with the quote of G.B. Shaw: "Life isn't about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself".

Schnip, schnap - stencil cutting

Remember, I had this idea of stenciling onto my background. But I hadn't any stencils. So I made one. Easy. I took a piece of heavy paper and my x-acto knife. It was so not a big deal, much easier as I expected it to be. And I got exactly what I needed. 

Today it's about how the things get evolved. The canvas is ready, and I need two dozens of painted paper pages for the folder, and it's gonna be ready to receive photos as a photo album. Have I mentioned that I have trouble to find albums I like, so I have to twist here, paint there, and off it goes into creative scrapbooking!

Work in progress - papers (PART II)

The in-between results of moving on with backgrounds. A motif to paint onto's gonna be dahlias from our garden. I've simply played around with Photoshop before getting started with paint.

Papers, papers, papers...

Today it's about making backgrounds. And this is something that I really start to love - mixing papers, modge-podg'ing them on, well, anything, but right now small-sized canvas and folders. I've already made folders in this technique here and here.

This time I've gone bigger and more spontaneously (well that's thanks to my kids - I do not have that much time to plan, or if I spend my time planning, I've no time to work anymore. Simple, don't you think?). Here you see a folder (about A4 size), and canvas - also something about 20 x 30 cm.

Anyway, now I'm gonna coat them loosely in my all-time-favourite teal-turquoise to even it all and paint something onto. Stay tuned.