Monday, April 4, 2011

Family est. canvas

CIMG3420 I had a few canvases that I wanted to make artwork with a few years ago, I traded them in for one piece of artwork by a friend of my husband. Well the friend was never happy with it and after a while neither was I. So I took it down of my wall and decided to do something new with it. I just didn’t know what.

After seeing a few ideas here and there in blogs I finally got it done yesterday.

First I decided to paint over it. I emptied a whole bottle of purple over it, but it didn’t cover the old paint. I was so frustrated.

Then I decided to use the Sunday paper and make a collage. I used Mod Podge and had at it. The result was not at all great. It was too busy. At this point I was about to give up and ended up just covering the whole thing with newspaper using only the printing and no pictures.

I finally remembered a statue I had seen in a Norwegian magazine my mom had sent me. I took a copy of the picture, resized it 200 times and cut out the shapes. I used the paper as a stencil and painted in with the only black paint I had. Fabric paint, it worked out just fine. The canvas no represents our whole family Jesse, Sofie, Isabel and Marianne and I decided to add the year our little family was established, 2001. I would have loved to add our last name’s, but we have to and mine is too long. Maybe I will add our initials A & B.

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5 comments:

Jenner said...

That is beautiful!! You should be very proud! I can draw (mostly dogs) but I can't paint worth a toot.

RedBettySummer said...

Very cool. Great idea, too. Creating is complicated, isn't it? It's worth the effort though. Thanks for sharing.

Katrina said...

Very neat idea! You are so creative. Me? Not so much. Ah well, we all have our talents :) Thanks for visiting and commenting on my blog. I am your newest follower!

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gertie @ The Old Block House said...

Wonderful project.

I love that you took what you had and made it work. Following.

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Jayna Rae said...

Well done! Sometimes first failure leads to genious.