So I made this for him
I started
out by prepping the canvas with some gesso and scribbling some yellow and green gelsticks on it
which I
smooshed out with a wet babywipe. Love the magic of seeing the dry crayon-marks turn into paint. I sprinkled some salt on to the canvas while it was still wet and let it dry, but I didn't achieve the desired effect. O well, so be it, it
did however add a glimpse of glitter so that was good as that was part of my
briefing.
I cut some hearts out of bookpages which I also colored with
the gelsticks and added a black border with a babywipe which I rubbed over the
black gel stick. Some washitape and text stamping and I was pleased with how the
background turned out.
I knew the focal point would be the hearts my son had made
with the iron beads but it needed something more, while browsing my box with
collage material I found these cute birds thorn from a kids book and another
bird from a magazine add.
I like how it appears that they are looking at each other or
even how it seems that the bird is
serenading the 2 birds up in the tree.
It is very cute Vicky, I am sure he liked it!
ReplyDeletehe absolutely did, I intended it to be hung in the playroom but he wants it in the attic where we craft
Deletelovely canvas Vicky...your son is a lucky boy.
ReplyDeleteI need to print that out so I can remind him of that from time to time :-)
DeleteHearts and birds...you can't go wrong with that. ;) Your little sweetie will love it. Hugs from Journal Workshop.
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by and am pleased to see that you liked it so much you decided to become a follower, means a lot to me.
DeleteHow lovely! He's obviously a chap who knows wha he likes and likes what he knows :o))
ReplyDeleteabsolutely, he's almost 5, his birthday is just around the corner and he is very stubborn :-) wondering where he got that from :-)
ReplyDeleteLOL, an assignment from your son! I'm sure he paid for it with lot's of love ;) It looks lovely - I really like the gel stick background!
ReplyDeleteabsolutely, he is such a cuddly boy. I like using the gelsticks and like it that they cost a fraction of gellatos and are apparently the same.
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