Now and Forever

This was a recent wooden canvas using a Prima wooden shutter, which I love.  They make me feel as if I'm in a garden in the South of France, peering through an old window set in an old wall of a very old building 😃

For this canvas, after I had given it a coat of gesso, I stenciled hanging leaves from the top of the canvas using Finnabair White Crackle Texture Paste.  I also stenciled some bricks onto the areas around where my shutters and embellishments would go using Finnabair Paper Texture Paste.

Once the pastes were dry, I added some ink sprays in greens and browns, allowing it to dry before adding some stamping with a script/word stamp randomly onto the canvas.

Using a script stencil and gold Nuvo Mousse, I added some script to the canvas.

I altered the wooden shutters using Finnabair Rust Pastes using the brown, mint and gold rust paste.  I first covered it in brown, then added a bit of the mint and gold pastes as and where I wanted it to be and then went over it all again with a bit of the brown paste.

I love the new (and old) Prima moulds and here I used the "Rustic Fleur 1" mould to make some leaves as well as flowers.  I covered these in yellow paint before adding them, other flowers and embellishments to the canvas.

I added a bit of the rust paste to the key and lightly sprayed it with water, allowing the brown paste to run down the paper behind the key.

The moss and flowers add a perfect touch to this old wall look.

Once I had added everything to the canvas, I lightly painted over most things with white gesso and then, once that was dry, I rubbed Prima Metallique Wax in Aged Brass over the crackle texture paste leaves, the shutters and anything else on the canvas that I felt need some dimension.

I love the finished look!  And I really hope that you do too 💛