Saturday, March 13, 2010

Old canvases get new life

Last night I sorted through my old paintings in the loft and decided to give some of them a face lift. I gessoed over them, but found the old painting texture was showing through too much, not in a way I could work with.

So I really plopped on the gesso and spread it like butter with my palette knife evenly across some of the canvas.

Then I took one of my cool hand carved antique wooden print blocks and stamped a different texture into each one. This morning they were dry and looked great!

I sketched out some flowers (I missed painting flowers) and
started working with a couple of them today...

...and Voila!!












Daisy Red
16" x 20"



















Wild White Daisies
16" x 20"









3 comments:

  1. Hi Daina,

    That texture looks really cool - what a great idea!

    Steve

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  2. Were the paintings you painted over originally acrylics? Good idea to get rid of duds and reuse materials!

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  3. Thanks for your comments Steve and Laurel! These old paintings (too ugly to show the 'before pics') were both oils. I primed them with gesso first before painting over them so the oils would bind well. This is a great way to reuse and recycle :)

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