Archive for the ‘Collages on Canvas’ Category
Saturday, June 20th, 2009
I’ve really been inspired lately by all the collages I’ve seen that are various shades of white, I love the “shabby” look of it. So I thought I’d give it a try. I white washed most of the items with gesso, sometimes adding water sometimes just straight from the bottle. First I white washed some vintage music paper and an image of a blue bird, then stamped the bird cage on transparency using white, I adhered the bird to the paper and then using my sewing machine I stitched the transparency onto the paper using different stitches. I then white washed a pair of Tim Holtz’ grungeboard wings (if you don’t know grungeboard is sort of a flexible type of chipboard, it’s very cool to work with), tied some string through a vintage button, added them to the board along with the words “spread your wings” and then added some vintage white lace across the bottom. It’s a very different look for me but I like it alot:)
Tags:bird, button, cage, collage, cottage style, lace, mixed media, shabby chic, tim holtz, washed, white, wings
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Friday, June 19th, 2009
I love the shape of a house as a base for a collage, it’s warm and well, so homey:) I just finished this collage on canvas board, the background on the board is layers of Tim Holtz’ crackled paint with several colors of ink rubbed over top of the paint. I cut the shape of the house and chimney from vintage book paper, I inked the edges to make it more aged looking and added a strip from a vintage tape measure as the base of the house. I cut the roof out of black cardstock that has a white core, I then sanded it to bring out some of the white and make it look more shabby. I made a copy of a lovely Victorian photograph I have and mounted it in the middle of the house using black photo corners. I had a small piece left from timming the tape measure and added it like a house number. Before I attached the roof I added some letters cut from an vintage book, small brads and sewed on a large metal key. I think a collage like this would be the perfect house warming gift for someone moving into a new home.
Tags:canvas, collage, crackle, home, house, key, paint, tim holtz
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Sorry, couldn’t resist the Beatles reference 🙂
Here’s another small canvas collage (3 3/4″ x 2 3/4″) I just finished, it’s another caged bird theme. Just can’t seem to get away from that theme lately, I think this one is a little sad and haunting. The background is vintage music paper and I stamped the words “Private Collection” down one side, adhered it to the canvas and inked up the edges, then wrapped black grosgrain ribbon around the canvas to hide the staples. I added the words “I live in a cage” cut from a vintage book and laid over the transparency with the cage. I then added the red winged black bird image and the tag tied with hemp string on top of the transparency.
Tags:bird, black, cage, caged, red winged
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Saturday, April 11th, 2009
My mom recently came back from Florida (were she was born) and brought back some really neat tiny sea shells and ask if I wanted some for my artwork and of course I did:) I used them in this fun little collage of a mermaid laying on the beach. I love mermaids almost as much as I do fairies:) I took a vintage image of a lady in a swimsuit and cut off her legs and added the tail of a fish from a vintage nature book, they didn’t really “match” so I wrapped some rickrack around her waist and it helped to tie the two halves of her together (sounds like Dr. Frankenstein or something, hehe) I inked up the small canvas (which is 3 3/4″ 2 3/4″) with various shades of blues, greens and yellows and wrapped yellow grosgrain ribbon around the edges to hide the staples. I tore and sanded cardstock for the beach, attached the mermaid and then added real sand mixed with Tim Holtz’s glitter glue for a very realistic looking beach. I then added those great shells from my mom and stamped and cut out a plaque and added the words “A day at the beach” cut from a vintage book. Makes me wish I was at the beach!
Tags:beach, canvas, collage, glitter, mermaid, sand, sea shells, tim holtz
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
I really liked the look and feel of my bird cage ATC’s and wanted to do something similar on a larger scale so I did a 5″ x 7″ on a canvas board. The background is vintage music sheet, the cage is stamped on a transparency sheet and the bird is an image from an old nature guide. There’s alot of embellishments on this one including the tiny tag tied with hemp string, an old cancelled German postage stamp (I added another stamped cancellation to it myself) a skeleton leaf (which is a leaf that has had everything but it’s “bones” bleached away), a piece of old wooden measuring stick, a brass book page marker and a piece of tattered fabric that I stamped an Emily Dickinson quote on. I named the piece “Hope”.
close up:
Tags:art, bird, cage, caged, canvas, collage, emily dickinson, hope, music, quote, sheet, vintage
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
I love working on canvas board for my collages as opposed to a stretched canvas over a wooden frame because there is no “sag” in the middle and they are a little less expensive, which is always a good thing:)
For this collage I started out with a 5″x7″ canvas board and inked the edges in a brown ink. Then I tore a page out of a vintage children’s book (a story about Hansel and Gretel) and inked those edges, then using gesso I white washed the page as well and adhered it to the canvas with gel medium. I cut out an image of a mushroom and adhered it to the canvas and then cut out a scalloped border from polka dotted scrapbooking paper, inked the edges and applied it to the bottom. I cut out an image of a sitting woman, added wings to her and then adhered her on top of the mushroom. I cut out a crown and the words “My first wish is” from the same book, inked the edges and adhered them. I then sealed it all with gel medium and added two vintage buttons, that still have thread in them, to the piece with some melted beeswax. I’m super happy with the results.
Tags:art, buttons, collage, crown, fairy, gel medium, gesso, mixed media, mushroom, vintage book page, whitewashed, wings
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Friday, February 13th, 2009
I just finished a little fairy collage on a tiny 3″x3″ canvas. I love working small and these little stretched wooden canvases are so fun! I first covered the canvas in two inks, one a burnt orange color, the other a brown. Then I smeared Tim Holtz crackle paint (old paper color) in some areas and heat set it all with my heat tool. I then adhered a piece of vintage tape measure down one side and then using gel medium adhered the wings and girl image. I used black Staz-On ink and stamped “Found Object 10/27/” on a small brass plaque and adhered it to the canvas too. I then ran black grosgrain ribbon around the edges of the canvas to finish it off.
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
I wanted to get away from all the tiny collage work I’ve been doing lately with my jewelry and do something bigger. I’ve been inspired lately by alot of different artists to try to stretch my personal style, so this one is a little different than what I normally do.
I started with a 10×10 chunky canvas and streaked it in yellow ink then added pages from a vintage music sheet (that I first white washed) and a page from a vintage math book, then took pages from a vintage children’s book (also white washed) and free hand cut some scalloped edges and inked them in black. I also stamped some swirly images in yellow ink on some of the pages. After those were applied I added some images of butterflies and hand drew some antenna and specimen numbers and the words “Stream of Consciousness”. I’m really happy with the results!
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
I found some really cool small canvases at my local art store. They had some that were the same size as an ATC (3 1/2″x 2 1/2″) so I used one for this collage. I took an image of Santa from an old postcard and mounted him to some music sheet and then layered it with cardstock, cutting the edges to make it look like a postage stamp. I used Tim Holtz crackle paint (love the stuff!) and ink for the background. I stamped cancellation and date marks on it with Staz-On ink. I had an old wooden game piece that had the number 25 on it, so I soldered around it and added it to the piece. The edges of the piece are wrapped with ribbon so it doesn’t need to be framed.
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
I did this Halloween collage last night. I painted the 4×5 canvas with blue paint and then used some of Tim Holtz’s cool new “Old Paper” crackle paint over it, and then aged it with inks. I used an image of an adorable little girl and sat her on some toadstools I had stamped and colored and added some torn old book pages on the bottom. Then added a hat to my girl and a brass toad charm in her lap. I added some grosgrain ribbon around the canvas edges to hide the staples so it doesn’t need to be framed. Isn’t she cute?:)
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