Up The Wall

Up The Wall

Hallo Everyone!

Claire Jackson is with us

today to share with us a

beautiful canvas of her

holiday in Rome

You might need to get 

yourself a cuppa and

a comfy chair ............

"I primed a 30x25cm canvas with white snowflake paint 

and added strips of decorative tape to create some 

texture in the background

 Next I built up the background with layers of Fresco Finish paint, 

starting with more opaque colours and then translucent colours on top.

 I wiped back the paint over the tape where it was too opaque.

To continue to build up the background I used a 

dark translucent paint sponged on a small script stamp, 

gold paint sponged on a large pattern stamp 

and sprayed golden walnut through a stencil.

 I added embossing paste through the brick wall stencil

 to some areas of the canvas

The edges were shaded with pine needles Distress Ink 

and Alchemy Wax was used to highlight the edges 

and some of the brick.

 I stamped and embossed the wording 

in white detail embossing powder on wax paper.

I used a dark brown watercolour pencil between the bricks 

to help them stand out.

Next I tore strips of the wax paper and scrunched them up tightly, 

before lightly rubbing them over with the gold wax.

A mini cardboard key was painted and edged with gold wax.

The photo was die cut and attached to the canvas 

and to create more texture I added a mixture 

of gems, microbeads and embossing enamel 

to the corners and around the photo

 I also sprinkled embossing enamel in places over the background

The photo was taken in the ancient Roman town

 of Ostia Antica, just outside Rome.

 If you ever get the chance to visit 

I would thoroughly recommend it."

Materials used:

Canvas board
Decorative tape
PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paint
PaperArtsy Mini MN61
Pattern stamp and stencil
Color Bloom spray: golden walnut
Embossing paste
Wall stencil
Alchemy wax: gold
Distress Ink: pine needles
PaperArtsy crunchy waxed kraft paper
Embossing Powder: detail white
Watercolour pencils
 Tando mini key
Memory Box frame die

Beautiful canvas Claire, thank you for

sharing it with us.  A wonderful moment

of what must have been a wonderful holiday

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx