Canvas Dezign

This week I received this canvas print from Canvas Dezign.

They're a UK based company that offers a wide range of quality prints.

For my print I chose this photo of my sister and me in Melbourne three summers ago. (My Dad took the photo. He really wanted y'all to know that, he's very proud of it.)

I could have chosen a nice landscape photo from a holiday snap but I tend to want to paint those on canvas myself, but if you're not so artistically inclined then getting scenic holiday photos printed onto canvas would be a great way to display them around your house. 

The frames are made of thick, solid wood with the edges of the image neatly stuck down, and they come with everything you need to hang it.

My print was mailed out to me on Monday and it arrived the next day. Gotta love fast service.

The image came out really well and the colours are so vibrant and not distorted at all from the original photo.

I opted for a 16x12" canvas but there are lots of different sizes to choose from, and they even cater for custom sizes.

Canvas Dezign also offer canvas art with a wide range of images including sunsets and iconic prints.

You can even have your own photo 'Banksy-ed'.

Canvas Dezign is offering you my lovely readers a 10% discount with the code 93HEXWF35U.

Canvas Dezign gave me this canvas print for free in exchange for a review.

Project Runway Silk Screen

My Mum bought me this Project Runway Silk Screen set, because she's nice like that and was leaving me all on my own to go on holiday for two weeks.

It's meant to be for silk screening clothes but until I find something I want to decorate I've been using it to make art prints.

The set comes with several screens and you just trace the image onto it and paint out the areas you want to keep white.

I started with this picture of my friend Lizzi.

I still need to figure out exactly how to get the best print, because there are a lot of cases of the paint bleeding at the edges.

For the first prints I used acrylic paint and then I tried poster paint.

Then I had the genius idea to make a glitter print!

Instead of putting paint over the screen I put pva glue, then removed the screen and covered the glue in glitter. I love it! 

Then I tried a two colour print.

I printed it four times and that one on the right is the best so far.

The one on the left is a great example of the annoying paint bleeding which make it look like my eye, nose and mouth are bleeding. Not a good look. 

But I will keep trying.

And I may even use it on clothes eventually.

1 photo 3 ways

I took this photo when I was on holiday in France in 2007, and lately I've been using the image to be creative.

I did a small watercolour painting with pencil over the top.

I covered the original photo with sequins, which was inspired by Color Me Katie.

And then here's the failed screen print where I used the image in my Print and New Media taster during my first year at uni. In my defence it was my first time screenprinting and we had to use four different technique in the one image.

My tutor and I decided I didn't get on with screen printing because working with block colours just ain't my thing.