Colouring and Bleaching Canvas

As my roll of canvas arrived yesterday, I decided to have another go at the bleaching effect with dishwasher rinse liquid.  This time I used a very thin layer of paint, this is London bus fresco paint and it's come out really well, but unfortunately the photo doesn't show it very well.

This one is yellow submarine and I poured the dishwasher rinse on in specific places.

Tango for this one and after pouring on the dishwasher rinse I  used screwed up tissue to create patterns in the liquid.

A very thin layer of beach hut fresco paint and it's come out really well, but again, photo doesn't do it justice.

Then the downfall, it doesn't like the opaque paint. Even though I really, really watered the guacamole down, adding the dishwasher rinse didn't do anything!!

So I tried it with limelight as I wanted a green, although it's come out more yellow than green!!!

I have an idea for what I want to use them for but I'm still waiting on post - watch this space!!!

Resist Canvas Play

I'd read about a canvas resist technique using dishwasher rinse aid, which in this case didn't work, but that's because I put the initial layer of paint on way too thick. Anyway after a bit of wetting and drying I ended up with these.

I cut them into squares and played around with stamping on them using stazon and archival. The archival definitely came out on top.

These images were all stamped in archival.

I used the strip of faces from my new TH classics #4 plate, the outer images are stamped in stazon and the middle in archival.

And this one was a bit more tricky as the base colour was black. I stamped the LP image in archival, masked it off and stamped the background image in versamagic cloud white, but it didn't show up too well.

Obviously they all need a bit more work when I decide what to do with them. I'll probably take my white posca pen to them and maybe add some machine sewing, we will see, but that's for another day.