Mixed Media Canvas Class

Here is the finished canvas sample for the mixed media class I taught today to 8 lovely ladies!

It started with me making the flowers and the doilies out of plastic in molds which are actually meant for icing!  I used Smooth Cast to mold them and it sets in 10 min which suits my personality!  I hate having to wait for things! LOL!

This is how I designed it:

I set about cutting up a piece of Pinkpaisly Butterfly Garden paper and re-organising it on my canvas so the dark print was on the inside.

Then I layed out the embellishments and glued them down before adding gesso round the edges of the canvas to soften the pattern.

Here you can see my students starting to add the distress paint to the edges and archival ink through the stencil.

These are 6 of the 8 finished canvases where you can see how they changed things up a bit to suit themselves!