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KIAENOV2014- CHristmas Canvas
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I decided to make this Christmas Canvas for my kept kit. This is for the Holiday decoration part and the kept kit project for KIAE November 2014. I painted the canvas and then arranged the elements. The Happy Holiday circle is from the kit, the holly leaves on the left hand side of the poinsettias, the circle of holly leaves behind the middle poinsettia, and the birds on the tag are all from my kept kit. The poinsettias are cut from a Tim Holtz die out of watercolor paper died red. I used gold paint on all the elements in one way or another.
I painted the canvas with gesso, then red paint, and then strips of green, white, and black. I thought it was a little too bright so I put a thin coat of gesso over the colors. I used a stencil and Viva gold special effect paint to make the little squares all over the canvas. Then it was too light so I put stips of the same colors using a plastic card. The ribbon was some left over Christmas ribbon which had gold in it and looks nice.
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