Colourful Canvas and Baby Layout By Sue Smyth

I am so happy to be continuing on with another year of creativity, chipboard is so versatile, I don't think I will ever lack ideas. So I hope to come up with some fabulous ways

to alter chip to inspire you all again this year.

My first project is a colourful canvas inspired by Miranda Edney who created a canvas with old brushes last year. So when I found a whole bucket of stiff old brushes at my father's farm when we were clearing it out

I had to use them. My brushes were a lot nastier than Miranda's were so I had to paint them all with a

thick coat of white paint. Then I adhered them, along with some old foam brushes

to my canvas with loads of gel medium and set a side for weeks and weeks.

So after Christmas, the New year and CHA, I came back to it to make my first

project for the year. I wanted to make my canvas colourful and include lots of chippie and trinkets.

So I really let my head go.

The result is a little in your face, with colour and flowers, loads of texture and very busy

but that is me, it looks like I have thrown up colour lol

Most of the chipboard is painted with gesso before inking black or I have

wiped gold paint over the top. I have also adhered a variety of

chip over the back ground with gel medium

and they were painted with gesso along coat over the

brushes too.

To create the rainbow effect I have sprayed Dylusions over the gesso coat starting with warm

red colours and working along to the cool blues and purples. The gesso soaks

up some of the intensity so they mellow nicely into a rainbow effect.

I have then wiped black gesso around the edges and dry brushed in

between the brushes to make the panel of brushes stand out from the canvas.

Then I have rubbed a layer of gold paint over the brushes and chip.

Lastly I have decorated with trinkets, chip and flowers. If a flower

does not match, of course just spray it with Dylusions and dry off.

This is a great chance to use up all your old embellishments and trinkets

you cannot bear to use, because you want to keep them. And of course old brushes.

I plan on hanging this in my work shop for a colour reference and

inspiration

Chippie used:

Baby Layout
This is a photo of my daughter barely 1 week old. Of course she is now 13 years old, but it is
always nice to go back and revisit old photos with some of the new
tools and ideas