These four canvases are an amalgamation of three different projects that individually weren't working, but take them apart and reuse the various bits and voila!
I'd made the the four ATC's ages ago from mount board that was painted and distressed and stamped with perhaps one of my most fave stamps from PaperArtsy in grey archival. I had intended putting them on an A4 canvas, but you know they just didn't look right, so they ended up on that "um" pile.
And then I made the pink moths (PaperArtsy again) for another project that again just didn't look right, so they ended up on the "um" pile.
So last weekend I painted four of them in a light grey paint, put some crackle glaze over the top and then over painted in a dark grey, added a few dry brush bits of pale blue, rubbed bits back to the pale grey with a a wet wipe and there they sat on my work desk till this Sunday.
This Sunday, I knew I wanted to add a bit more texture so used a big background text stamp from PaperArtsy (the Blackie book one) in mushroom and then weathered wood distress embossing powder over some Tim text stamps and a postcard stamp.
Edged the ATC's with some old silver inka paint, glued on with my trusty glue gun and then thought - they need something else ... tum-te-tum MOTHS!
I'm pleased with them and I think they'll compliment hubby's fishes (see previous post) top and bottom in the place we've identified to hang that canvas.
But I think I do now need to move away from the blue paints and inks and try another colour combination - possible pinks seeing as I purchased a number of pink fresco paints from LB Crafts on Saturday!
Hugs
jo
xx
if you ever want to get rid of that "um" pile, you know where to find me! i loved the fish-canvas, but this one i love even more! you don't blog often, but when you do, it's totally worth it!
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