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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.
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:
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.
