It’s been awhile since I’ve made any collages on canvas so I got out a few canvas boards last week and made a couple.

Awhile ago I made an all white washed collage with a bird cage theme and was really happy how it turned out so I got out the gesso again to do some more white washing. I used a sponge brush and a light coating of gesso over some vintage music sheet and vintage book papers, then covered my 5 x 7 canvas board with music sheet using gel medium to adhere it. Then a traced a chipboard butterfly onto the back of the book paper, cut it out and adhered that. I had a lovely copy of a Victorian photo I bought from a dealer in the UK that I scanned and printed onto watercolor paper and I matted it with black cardstock that I cut with deckle edge scissors giving it that edge you see on alot of old photos. I then adhered the photo, popped up the butterfly with lots of foam tape and added layers of buttons on the butterfly and the corner of the photo along with a crocheted flower. Lastly I cut the words “spread your wings” from a vintage book and adhered that to the bottom of the collage.

I love the black and white contrast of this one alot.

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