My Kind of Collage

Like I said yesterday, I have started to prepare new canvases. And this is, how I usually do it: I glue down all kinds of recycled paper with white PVA glue. After it's dry, I cover it with fluid acrylic mat medium using it as a substitute for clear gesso. If I know, what color I want the first layer to be I add some acrylic paint to it. This is the latest one (sorry for the blurry image: it was late and dark again :) ).

And I have even covered the canvas with two layers of paper. At first, I covered the whole canvas with newspaper and pages from my kids old school workbooks. When that layer was dry, I started to cover it with the medium adding torn pieces of recycled paper I had mono printed with acrylics some time ago and black and burnt umber acrylic paint. Now, it's dry and waiting for the next layers to be added.

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Namaste

Faces - #23 of 29 and the first canvas started

Today, I'm extremely busy with a translation, 20 flower wreaths, and classes at school. So my face for the 29 faces challenge is only a quick sketch of my inner Frida with water soluble pencils. Unfortunately, I tried to add some water, but forgot about the kind of the paper :)

And this is a very significant day for me, as I started to work on my first ever canvas. It's tiny, but still, and I feel just AWESOMELICIOUS working on it!


Sorry for the pretty bad images, but it's 7 pm and not much of day light left here in the North. And did I say I'm in hurry? :)