Left Overs From A Workshop

I recently had a wonderful day out at a Clare Charvill (My Creative Spirit) workshop, where I made an Album (will show you this at a later date). When I had finished the Album I had two gorgeous 12x12 pages left from the collection that I used. The collection was a new one from Stamperia called Sea World, the papers are fabulous especially if you like steampunk and industrial themes.  As soon as I saw the pages that I had left I knew that I wanted to make a canvas with them and could almost picture it in my mind before I started cutting into the papers.

First I fussy cut around the lady and the coral that she has in her hair then I cut around the Jellyfish and finally a collection of cogs and gears that was on one of the sheets. I also found that there was the word Industrial which I cut out and added to some black card.  I then played about with how I wanted my A3 canvas to look by moving the pieces about until I was happy with it.  I then got my paints out and picked some colours that were similar and reminded me of the sea and blended them across all of the canvas. Once dry I painted a rust technique around the corners and edges trying to make it look as though the rust was seeping into the sea. I achived this by first painting in black then a dark brown mixed with a little sharp sand, then with a mixture of copper and turquiose and a little gold colour, very carefully dry brushed over the black and brown. I then found a stencil which was a maidenhair fern, but reminded me of seaweed, so with some sparkle medium that I had on my shelf I stenciled through at the bottom of the canvas. Only when everything was dry did I go back a stick the pieces that I had cut out into place.

I love how the canvas turned out and after sticking the INDUSTRIAL word down I went over the letters with glossy accents.

If anyone is thinking that they would like to make one of these with the same papers that I have used. Be aware that there are two sizes to this paper collection. I used the 12x12size and I think that the 8x8 size would be too small for this project.

If you've stuck with this until the end, thank you for visiting and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue