I've created a canvas this week as it's been a while since I did one. I just really wanted to have a little play and I love how this turned out.
My starting point was some lovely rice paper with the image of the garden gate on it by Studio Light. I loved the idea of going through that gate and exploring. I created my background with some new paints I've recently bought from Paper Artsy and they are fast becoming my favourites to use. I only used a few colours here as I only have 3 so far - I used Steel Grey and Seaglass. I added some texture paste with a stencil and then did some stamping and stencilling using products by Alison Bomber and Tracy Evans.
I added some extra texture and interest by using some scraps of book pages and ephemera for the butterfly which is one of Tim Holtz's Ideaology butterflies. I fixed it to some netting. I then found these two Tim Holtz paper dolls and they just reminded me of my grandchildren who are 7 and 3 and just love being out doors exploring so the words I found from Tim's quote books were just perfect.
I created the circles with the top of the paint pot of Snowflake also by Paper Artsy. I love how this turned out and it has pride of place on my wall.
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