3d Floral Canvas Art
by Heidi Borchers
Canvas art takes
on a recycled dimension with fabric stiffened silk flowers and a
plastic water bottle vase.
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Materials Canvas – 12” x 24” Texture paste (Aleene’s True Snow works great for this) – 2 jars Palette knife Texture comb (You can buy these at home improvement stores in paint department or you can make your own from mat-type cardboard – see Heidi’s Designer tip to make your own texture tool.) Silk flowers and leaves (I purchased mine from a dollar store. Remove flowers from stems. Cut stems to fit into arrangement.) Aleene’s® Fabric Stiffener Brush – ½” flat Plastic water bottle – Cut in half for vase Paints: Black (paint entire dried background, flowers & plastic bottle vase) Background – Upper: Dark Blue (Navy), Med Blue (Denim) Lt. Blue (Sky) Lower: Yellow, Red, Orange and Dark Green (Pine), Lt. Green (Wedgewood) Flowers: Burgundy, Red, Orange, Yellow Leaves and stems: Dark green (Pine), Med. Green (Leaf), Brown (Chocolate) Vase: Beige (Butter Cream, Lt. Green (Wedgewood) Wax paper Plastic zip lock bag |
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Instructions
Using the palette
knife, apply and spread an even thickness of the texture paste onto
the canvas background and the sides of the canvas. To create the
texture on the background, pull the texture comb through the texture
paste while it is still wet. Create the texture on the bottom
5” of the canvas in a different direction. Place a small amount of
texture paste onto the half of plastic water bottle. Place
this into the wet prepared background of the canvas. Using photo as
a placement for this process.
Put wax paper
onto your workspace. Place the silk flowers and leaves into the
plastic zip lock bag. Pour some of the Fabric Stiffener into the bag
over the flowers and leaves. Close the bag tightly. Work
the fabric stiffener into the silk flowers. Make sure you get all
the flowers covered. Carefully pull out one flower at a time, and
arrange flower onto the wax paper. Arrange the petals, and the
leaves, the way you want them to dry, then carefully place onto the
prepared background. Repeat with all flowers and leaves. Place the
stems into the background. Let Fabric Stiffener and texture paste
dry completely.
Using a brush,
paint the entire prepared background, vase, flowers, and leaves with
black paint. Let paint dry.
To paint the
colors onto the entire art piece, you will be layering the paint
colors. Each layer of color should be almost dry before applying the
next color: For the upper background, first brush on the navy
blue over the upper background area. Second, brush on the medium
blue paint. Then the light blue paint. The upper background also has
a few brush strokes of medium green as a final touch. For
the lower background/Checkerboard: Yellow area, first paint
yellow, then orange, then small dry brush strokes of Red. For the
Green area, first paint dark green, then light green. For the
Vase: Paint the beige, then dry brush strokes of the light
green. For the Flowers: Paint the burgundy first, then the
red. Paint the orange at the center area of the flower and the tips
of the flower. For the flower center, paint yellow, then
orange. For leaves and stems, paint dark green. Dry brush with the
medium green and the light green. Dry brush the edges of the leaves
with the brown paint.
Heidi’s Designer Tip: To make your own texture comb, cut a piece of
heavy mat board approximately 2” x 4”. Using pinking shears, cut
along one edge of the 4” side. Clean the cardboard off each time you
pull through the texture medium.
