So on Monday I lovingly wrapped my 6 canvases in bubble wrap, placed them carefully inside a Canada Post bubble mailer, addressed it, then sealed it up.
Then I saw the envelope containing the submission form and my business cards laying on the table, because I forgot to put it in the package. There was no way that thing was going to be re-opened, whatever glue they put on these mailers could be used to hold aircraft together. So I ended up taping the envelope to the backside of the mailer.
Anywho, here are the pictures!
Here they are all finished:
BERBLE WRERP!!!
I made some "business cards" out of paint samples to hold me over until my actual profesh cards arrive.
All wrapped up!
In ya go!
Addressed and ready to roll.
I'll be heading down to Kingston for the Six Squared Gala on Friday, November 16th. Can't wait to see all the other wonderful submissions!
Cheers,
Melissa
Well friends, we've come to the final canvas. Thank you for taking this journey with me, it's been a blast!
Canvas 6: Put a Bird (Stencil) on it (YouTube video from Portlandia for context)
First I painted the canvas - two coats, just like always. It wouldn't make any sense to paint the stencil on it AND THEN paint it. That would just be silly.
Then I selected the awesome bird stencil to paint on it.
Then I taped that bad boy onto the canvas to it wouldn't move around and mess things up, and selected the colours I wanted to use, and a buncha small/thin paint brushes.
PAINT ALL THE POSITIVE SPACE!!! (Note: I just totally made that up. Does "positive space" even exist? I know negative space does, because I spent an inordinate amount of time filling it in with ModPodge in my screen printing post.)
Ugh, not to draw attention to it, but I totally borked the right side of the canvas by getting sloppy with my paint brush.
It's all good. I got this. FIXED!
I picked up this tester kit of ModPodge at Deserres last weekend, and I couldn't help but notice that there's a SPARKLE MODPODGE (1st on the left). HOLY SH*T!!!
You better believe I smothered that canvas in glorious SPARKLE MODPODGE.
Ohhhhh!!! Try not to look directly at it; you could be blinded by it's sparkly, shiny awesomeness.
TADA!!!
Canvas 6: COMPLETE.
