Do you like the canvas pages in your art journal or don’t you know how to use them? I will show you a few techniques that I have used. There are of course many more, I it just your imagination that sets the limits.
- Type of project: Art Journaling on canvas pages
- Occasion: Any occasion
- Style: Mixed media, artsy, CAS
- Techniques used: Gesso, stamping, masks and stencils, gel printing
- Decoration: mixed, photos, stamped image
- Main colour: white, beige, turquoise, fuchsia
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Have I told you that Dina Wakley is my house god and a great inspiration for both art journaling and scrapbooking in general? I took my first online Dina Wakley art journaling class in 2009, and since then I have been a follower.
Dina has several types of Art Journals, and in some of them there are canvas pages. I can understand the hesitation on how to use them. That is why I wanted to show some examples of how I have used these pages.
Sometimes I paint directly on the page. It is good to have something between the canvas page and the next page so that the paint or medium will not bleed through. I often use heavy gesso as a base on my canvas pages. I do not cover the entire page, just some of it, and then I build my art journaling on the gessoed part of the page.
I like to also use gesso on the back side of the canvas page. I think that is the easiest way to get a good look.
Using distress ink or distress oxide is also a possibility. Then you can use the canvas page the same way as using a paper page. It is, however, somewhat difficult to get the canvas page to stay still, so I recommend using something to stretch the page and keep it from moving.
Using gel as a glue for example to attach tissue paper is the best but it will crinkle the canvas page a little.
In Dinas Black Art Journal there are also burlap pages. I mostly cut these out and use for decoration but sometimes I also decorate these.
How do you use canvas or burlap pages in your art and junk journal? Let us know and use #TPCMagazine
Petra Offrell is from Sweden. Petra has been writing for TPC since 2021. Petra started paper crafting in 2004 and she mostly makes cards, layouts and Art Journals. Her paper projects are often made in Clean and Simple style with some Artsy details.