From Canvas to Art Journal pages
In this blogpost I will show you how I went from canvas to art journal. Canvases I made where cut from their frame and glued in a book.
Introduction:
I made a lot of canvases a few years ago. Partly because I sold them in facebook groups. That selling was a lot of work and I stopped with that and went back to art journaling. Some canvas painting where therefore cut from their frame and glued in art journals or altered books.
In this blogpost I will show you one large canvas that was transformed to a few pages in an altered book.
The canvas was an unfinished canvas from a workshop by Tracy Verdugo. The workshop was a whole weekend long in august 2019 and we also made some acrylink paintings on watercolor paper. This was fun to make and will have to have a go at that sometime soon.
![2019 08 24 Workshop Tracy 2019 08 24 Workshop Tracy](https://www.carlapersoon.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/2019-08-24-Workshop-Tracy-947x1024.jpg)
The Canvas:
The Canvas was a work in progress during the whole weekend, layers and layers of acrylic ink and some collage elements. At the end of the weekend I went home with an unfinished canvas like most of the other participants.
And then it was left in a pile with all my other unfinished canvases until this year when I looked at ik again. I had finished a number of other canvases as you have seen in previous blog posts. But what to do with this one. I decided to cut it up and make a few art journal pages from it in my big altered book.
Here is the canvas I started with:
![20190825_123828 20190825_123828](https://www.carlapersoon.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/20190825_123828-783x1024.jpg)
From Canvas to Art Journal Pages:
After taking a look at the canvas I realised that I could easily cut it in half and glue that into my altered book. It was a canvas board that was used for the painting so I started with taking the canvas of its board. And made two large art journal pages with them. I played with some fantasy edges of the pages. In the picture you can see the two pages flat and how it looks when you lift them.
A third page is still in progress, on that page I used some left over clippings of the canvas and cut those in shapes. That is something for a later date.
Here are the other art journal pages that I made.
![IMG_0709 IMG_0709](https://www.carlapersoon.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMG_0709-1024x657.jpg)
![IMG_0710 IMG_0710](https://www.carlapersoon.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMG_0710-1024x772.jpg)
![IMG_0712 IMG_0712](https://www.carlapersoon.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMG_0712-1024x651.jpg)
![IMG_0711(1) IMG_0711(1)](https://www.carlapersoon.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IMG_07111-1024x733.jpg)