Textured Mini Canvas

This is a little 4' x 4' flat canvas for another recent swap.  The swap theme was texture.  I have used impasto and lace together underneath, then gessoed both.  I then layered some ochre coloured paints to help give depth in colour.  The main image is from a serviette with lots of doors glued on with modge podge and worked into the texture.  I love the colours, the rustic Tuscany look of these.  I then angel mist sprayed to re-wet and make sure the serviettes contoured to the texture.   I then stamped the sentiment on a scrap part of the serviettes.  This was then mounted on a bit of rectangle chipboard.  Both the canvas and sentiment edges were then sanded and inked with Tim Holtz Distress Ink Frayed Burlap.  A painted "Collections" bracket, a photo turn and high mounting the sentiment and it's done.

3 Days is a Row!!!

This is another sample from a swap I ran recently.  The theme was Tim Holtz inspired tags.   Some of you will know his blog and his 12 Days of Christmas Tags he has run for the last few years.

 If you do not know who Tim Holtz is you must follow this link.  Make sure you do look at the Christmas Tags, down the left hand column is the link.

http://timholtz.typepad.com/

 In my opinion he is one of the most inspirational paper artists and creators of products around.   I was lucky enough to do some classes with him at the last SDU in Brisbane.