HOW TO START IN HOMEMADE ART CANVASES : A PINK AND ANIS GREEN CANVAS !

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How long have you practice homemade canvas ?

I practice homemade canvas since May 2008. I discovered homemade canvas by searching an artwork for my home, my walls were all white because I had just moved and I could not find arts with shades of lime green and pink in the stores. So, I searched the Internet and I discovered people doing homemade canvas. I thought, why not try and I started. Since it became a passion!

Forum http://homedeco.forumactif.info/ also helped me (advice and tips).

What do you prefer in homemade canvas ? 

I love paintings on the theme of nature with flowers, leaves, butterflies ... Besides, I have a lot on this topic here on my site!

What are your favorite colors? 

I love the lime green color but it's the color the most difficult to create for me.

I realize many mixtures before being satisfied with my green!

Otherwise, I also love the combination of turquoise and brown.

What brings you homemade canvas ?

It is a real moment of relaxation after work. This makes me think of something else and let my imagination working because I love creating.

I often organize "creative" evenings , I do a lot of drawings on paper until I find the sketch of my future painting.

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Small canvas of flowers and Rose Green anise

For your homemade canvas first steps, I suggest you to make this small canvas with flowers in shades of acid lime green and fuchsia.

Equipment used:
* Chassis canvas 24 x 30 cm
* Pencil Paper
* Fuschia Paint 
* Lime green paint

Step 1 -Canvas background :

First, paint the bottom of the canvas with the anise green paint.

Once the paint is dry, glue a tape to define the stripes and paint them with pink and green paint. For a lighter pink, add white paint.

Step 2 - Drawing Flowers

When the paint is dry, draw with a pencil leaves and flowers or decal them or use a stencil to draw their contours.

 Step 3 - Painting the leaves

Paint with white paint the leaves using a very fine brush "Special stroke" model.

Step 4 - Painting flowers

And finally, paint flowers with a darker green paint for more sustained emphasis.
Et voilà !

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Technical books

African Canvas: The Art of West African Women
Margaret Courtney-Clark

Margaret Coutney documents the bold geometric and symbolic wall paintings made by women in remote West African villages. These women transform objects from their daily world--a fish net, a cooking pot, a weaving, a calabash--into rippling patterns laden with cosmic significance.

A gold mine for creative ideas ! (Expensive ! Buy it used... from $26)

Artful Spaces: DIY Wall Art for the Home
Gerard Smith

Looking for quick, creative ways to add art to the spaces in your hom e? You'll find them here.Artful Spaces gives you just what you want - art projects that actually look good and take hardly any time at all. And the best part: There's no experience needed...

Click on the picture to see more.

There are only few English books about homemade canvas art... Many of them are written in French language...

You can easily order these homemade canvas art books on amazon.fr by clicking on this link (Many photos and sketchs art ideas)

Homemade
101 Projects
You Can Make at Home
Ros Badger

Expand your creativity!

Homemade contains over one hundred craft projects that require you to look no further than your very own home.

My Favorite Art Book:
I Love to Paint !
Jennifer Lipsey

Here's a book that is as attractive as it is useful

Following introductory information about supplies, each spread, framed on bright-white pages, introduces a different technique, beginning with finger painting...

Abstract Painting :
Concepts Techniques
Vicky Perry

Learn abstract painting... very easily !

Vicky Perry shows you the abstract painting secrecies...