Tuesday 10 September 2013

Wisdom = keeping schtum

This canvas was done to enter the Swanstitch challenge over at Arty Inklings a few twitter buddies were discussing it on Saturday morning and I thought the idea was a good one.

I started by trying to get the streaky background - easy when you don't want to, darned tricky when you do. I used dark blue paint at the top and gradually lightened it as I went down the canvas until I got to "ground" level where I added in green.

I then mixed Grunge paste with granite paint and using an acetate stencil I made from the Tim Holtz die - man with brolly, and used for the Roman Letters (I think) to look like the letters were raining down.  Finally I stamped the sentiment from PaperArtsy set HPXT04.









7 comments:

massofhair said...

Fantastic colours here Jax, great canvas:-)

sam21ski said...

Oooh fab take on the canvas Jax

Godda love the umbrella man, he looks great on anything!!!

Sam xxx

Unknown said...

Looks amazing kiddo x

Unknown said...

Love the graduation of colour! xxx

Helen said...

I love this, Jax, the colour is gorgeous! Love that sentiment.

Anonymous said...

Wow, that's gorgeous, the colours are fab.

Unknown said...

Gorgeous Jax, thanks so much for taking part!!
Anita x