Images of some of the recent work I have done

Here are some of the works I have done most recently, I have more and those will come soon.

Holiday's

Happy Holiday's

 

 

The Holiday's are once again upon us. This is seriously my favorite time of the year, as soon as the end of September hits I begin to get giddy with excitement! The changing color of the leaves, and the air becoming crisp and soon that chilly breeze. The car's are filled with frost in the early morning and being able to see you breath in the air. All of these signs just warm me up inside, and also let me know that soon family will start making arrangements to see each other.

This year is extremely special to me, because I have my son Antoni to celebrate it with, my husband and I can start to create warm family memories! I am so excited to document every moment we get. Now this being said, I already started making crafts. Even though I am busy with other things, this time of the year with a little help from pinterest make me get crafty! Either way this being Antoni's first Thanksgiving I wanted to make him a special little outfit. A few weeks ago I began thinking, and came upon this idea, which I sort of twisted and made my own. I decided to make him a turkey onesie.

Materials:

1. Onesie
2. Fabric glue/ hot glue (the hot glue worked way better for me)
3. Felt (your color choice)
4. Eyes (I bought mine at a craft store, or you can simply make your own)
5. Scissors
6. Imagination

Directions:

1. I cut out all of my pieces, I needed a big circle, medium circular piece, larger triangle for beak, feathered pieces for the feathers, and then a gobbler piece (I am sure there is an appropriate term, I just do not know it.)
2. I began gluing my pieces onto the onsie the circles, triangle, and gobbler for face in the front. Then the feather on the bottom back. (Make sure you measure up how high on the back because you do not want the feather to be on baby's back, we want them on the cute little tooshy.
3. I glued eyes

 

 

Voila you have a turkey!

 

 

Now after this rant that I was on with crafting I decided to go ahead and try the canvas photo prints. The nice thing about being an artist is that I had all the materials already hear at home! So I got to work, I started digging through my art stuff, I had no idea I had so many unused stretched canvas's already yippee! I got all the materials which were:

 

1. Mod podge
2. Acrylic paint
3. Sponge brush
4. Craft brush, or any brush to paint with
5. Picture
6. Canvas
7. Plastic card (ex.debit card)
8. Paper towel

 

So I got started, let me say you should put a plastic bag or newspaper down first before you begin. So now I took my canvas and painted it, I chose brown so it could match nicely with the picture that I chose to test this with. Since I did this with an hour before having to go to church I got the blow dryer to help dry the paint faster. Works great just to let you, just make sure you don't keep in the same area for too long. Then pass it with the cool button pressed down so you can keep working. Next, once the paint was all dry I took the mod podge and covered the canvas area where my picture would go. I then carefully placed my picture in the center, you can use a picture as big as the canvas. Since this was just a test, the picture I had in hand was smaller than my actual canvas. Either way I placed the picture and then took my debit card and wrapped it with the paper towel and smoothed out the picture so there would be no air bubbles. After drying for about 10 min. I took the mod podge once again with the sponge brush and went over the entire thing, going in a horizontal motion once across the picture, so there would be an even stroke. If you do not do it this way the end result will look sloppy. That is all I had time for and I went off to church, when we got back it was all dry. I then decided I wanted to do something to the edges of where the picture and the canvas met, so I put a little of the brown paint and kind of fogged up the edges. I did like this way better.

My end result:



 





 

 This would look nice with black and white photographs as well, but I did not have any at hand. Or you could even try painting a pattern on the canvas and then putting your image, or even doing a collage. Sky's the limit with this, just have fun and be creative with it. These are great memorable gifts to give now for the Holiday's! My next project will be Gallery wrapped styled canvas photo prints, and a canvas transfer. Stay tuned for the next one's.

 

Have a Happy Thanksgiving all!

Till next time this is Damaris always keeping it true and real!