Recently Completed in the Studio

 

What do you do when you have a blank 16x20 canvas panel? You experiment with different mediums of course. 

The above was created by using acrylic paints, magazine cutouts using a petal shape stencil, and scrapbook paper. 

I first painted the entire canvas panel with a sky blue acrylic paint. Once the layer was dry, I then dry brushed on a brown metallic acrylic paint and a gold metallic acrylic paint to add a little texture. Now I could have left the canvas panel alone after the metallic paints dried because I honestly did like how it looked but the entire purpose of this piece was to experiment. 

To add color, I skimmed through several magazines to find images that were bright, colorful, and eye-catching. Once I had these pages stacked up, I then used a paper stencil to make petal shapes on the pages and cut them out. 

The fun part was trying to arrange these shapes in such a way to show off both the background and paper petals but in a cohesive way. Once the petals were laid out and glued into place. I thought the piece needed something extra so I added square pieces of silver holographic scrapbook paper to the center of a few of the petals. 

I was going to add small clear rhinestones around the edges of all the petals but decided against it after taking a break from the piece and then coming back to it. Although, I might still add the rhinestones in the future if I ever get tired of looking at this piece the way it is now. 

Should I add the rhinestones or leave as is?

close up image so you can see all the different textures

Until next time, let inspiration find you!

A. Cornelia