Djc

November 24, 2007

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I've been trying to play with canvas and gesso. I saw some with beautiful texture. I have since learned that there is Gesso and then there is Gesso. I used the bottled version sold at Michael's. That worked all right when I painted it over an inked background, but it wasn't any good at all for adding texture. I didn't know that there is also a thicker gesso (sold in jars) so I kept trying to get this one to work. Here are some of the things I did to this poor piece of canvas in no particular order. I actually have no idea of the order in which I did these things.

I used a variety of Adirondack reinkers to color the gessoed canvas. You can see three distinct areas on the background piece. I just kept trying things out. On one section I finally used the Lumiere Technique Jan taught us on SOF. I wasn't sure I liked that on my canvas, but loved the way it looked when I made Moos from that piece. (See the first of the three Moo Cards.)

I put so many layers of gesso on the canvas (from a tablet of canvas sheets). I tried putting bubble wrap on the mixture while it was still tacky, letting it dry pretty much, and pulling it off. That helped slightly. I finally cheated and used a brayer to ink the bubble wrap and then put the inked bubble wrap on the canvas and brayered over that. That made a faux texture. (See the ATC's.).

I already posted a card where I used Moos made from the darker piece of canvas (the last of the three Moo Cards). I made the Moos for the swap with the Luminere section. The flourish is from Hampton Art, and I added Swarovski flatback crytals (SS16 crystal and SS12 blue zircon). I edged them with a black Adirondack pen. I made the ATC's from the section where you could still see the bubblewrap design. The crystals I used there are SS12 crystal gold (jonquil on the ATC with the cs butterfly) and SS16 light smoked topaz. I stamped the butterflies with VersaMark and heat embossed with Judikins Malachite EP. The butterflies are all different, I stamped some of them on vellum and some on a piece of shiny, textured, cardstock Leni sent me. (Thank you, Leni.) I tried using glitter glue on the back of the butterfly on the third Moo Card; it didn't work. You couldn't see it through the thick beige vellum I got from an envelope, so I colored the front of that butterfly. For the other butterflies, I colored on the back of the vellum with watercolor markers. I ended up using a lighter color on the front to change the color somewhat. I used metallic rub-ons on the cardstock. That was the only thing that worked on that textured cs. The small butterfly is from PSX, and the other one is Hero Arts. I liked the way the wings curled when I used the wc pens on vellum so I didn't glue that part down.

I thinks that's all. TFL. Daria

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