Tuesday 7 January 2014

ALTERED CANVAS!

I have enjoyed Clare LLoyds new work on Paperartsy and decided to do my version of altered canvas.

I prepped an 8x8 canvas with Snowflake fresco and grunge pasted clouds in the sky through a stencil.
I colour washed the sky with Sky fresco and dabbed with a baby wipe to create a mottled effect.

I then colour washed the grass with a mixture of Hey Pesto and Limelight. I printed a little grass with the edge of card and stamped the curved ruler stamp in olive archival to outline the hills.

I wanted to get different sizes of houses so I photographed my stamped image and printed it onto tissue paper in different sizes from my computer.
I painted the houses in Beach Hut, Smoked Paprika and London bus and added some doodling.
I printed dragonflies, painted in beach hut and attached to wire which I curled. After a little bit of Stickling I attached the flies to the house.
Finally I stamped and enlarged the sentiment , colour washed and glued to canvas.
All the stamps are from Squiggly inks.
Thanks for looking.

14 comments:

  1. That is GORGEOUS. Love the bright colours.

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  2. Nice going Hazel, beautiful canvas:-) x

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  3. This is great Hazel - Love the colours

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  4. Lovely and bright real fun piece xxx

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  5. very cute, love the ruler used on the hills.

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  6. Fab fun canvas, love the dragonflies

    Sam xxx

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  7. Your canvas is beautiful and should be hung on the bedroom wall of one of your lovely grandchildren ;D.

    Hugs
    Lesley Xx

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  8. I love the whimsy and the bright colours on this canvas. It is really cheery and fun! Love those little houses. Julie Ann xx

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  9. Beautiful panel, I love design and colours combo.

    Etsuko xx

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  10. Love you happy springy colours. Very whimsical

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  11. fabulous work! really love the wired dragonflies on the lovely background your created. thanks so much for joining the challenge! clare @ PaperArtsy. x

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  12. Wow this is fabulous, there is such life to your canvas - Love it!! x

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  13. love the zingy colours - you can't help but feel cheerful looking at this x

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