Back for my second altered art post this morning, this time for Rhedd's Creative Spirit, where we have another Anything altered art goes challenge starting today.
I was looking through my box of wooden shapes, and was inspired to have a play with a canvas
I started by choosing all my pieces and embellishments, and giving them all a couple of coats of Gesso. I added some brick wall stencilling around the trellis, and gave it some depth with a Ground Espresso distress marker.
I coloured the canvas with Lindy's stamp gang sprays and a little glimmer mist, and the flowers and other embellishments with alcohol ink. I just dripped it straight from the bottle onto the flowers. It uses up a lot of ink that way, but it gives a lovely deep shade that way.
Coating everything in gesso first is a great technique, as it means you can use up all those odds and sods in colours you never liked much! It also means you have less of a hard time trying to find enough embellishments in the right colours for your project!
And there it is. I'm rather pleased with how it turned out actually!
I hope you'll come and play along with us this month.
Have an awesomesauce day!
Sammy-x
9 comments:
A super creation Sammy, great textures ad colour.
B x
Gorgeous canvas Sammy, wonderful texture and colours...I love how you've coloured those flowers with the inks...stunning!
Chris
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A fabulous canvas Sammy..... love all that texture in the bricks - and your flowers are perfect!
Hugs
Christine x
This is gorgeous Sammy, great texture and lots of fabulous details.
Pauline
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Beautiful work love all the details and colours. Janet x
This is so lovely Sammy,I love the textured brick work it really give the canvas "feel"..gorgeous flowers too...xx
I like how controlled you have been with your colour and placement of this pretty canvas Sammy! Yummoh!
Such a lovely scene on your canvas. I could just sit there Sammmy!
and it definitely pleases me to look at your beautiful canvas. The colours are gorgeous and compilation well balanced hun xx
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