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Canvas Wall Book Visit DIY's Craft Lab to learn how to create a versatile, altered mini-book from unstretched canvas. From "Craft Lab" episode DCLB-138

Guest Claudine Hellmuth creates joins host Jennifer Perkins and demonstrates how to create an altered mini-book from unstretched canvas to mount on the wall.

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Guest Claudine Hellmuth creates this versatile, altered mini-book from unstretched canvas.

Project designed by Claudine Hellmuth.

Materials:

8 x 10 stretched canvas
Golden acrylic paints (Pyrolle Orange, Cobalt Blue, Hansa Yellow Medium Titan Buff, Titanium White and Raw Umber)
water soluble oil pastels
Fredrix unprimed cotton duck canvas
photocopies of people
scissors
paintbrushes
Golden Regular Gel matte
PITT artist pens in black
permanent marker
pencil
ribbon
masking tape
old paint brushes (to use for making dots)
needle and thread
buttons

Figure A

Fabric Wall Hanging Book Collage

1. Apply gel medium to your 8 x 10 canvas surface and place white gift tissue into the gel. Allow some wrinkles to remain to add texture. Let dry.

2. Give the canvas a light wash of watered down yellow paint, dab with a paper towel to remove any excess, allow to dry.

3. Dip the handle end of an old paint brush into blue acrylic paint and dab onto canvas making a polka dot, repeat all over canvas until it is filled with dots (figure A). With the same paint color, paint the sides of the canvas. Set aside to dry.

4. Tear down a piece of cotton duck canvas to approx. 5 x 7 by 25" long.

5. Coat the canvas with gel medium and allow to dry.

6. Color water soluble oil pastels onto canvas, then add water with a brush and move around to create a stained effect. Allow to dry.

7. Fold the canvas so that it is in five equal parts, cut along the first fold to make the cover and along the middle fold so that you have two sets of two pages. Set pages aside.

8. Cut out a photo copied image of woman and add cream colored acrylic paint to cover her clothes, allow to dry.

9. Glue to cover fabric piece using gel medium, cut out house from blue paper and glue to the woman, add a crown too if you like. Allow to dry.

10. Get out your 8 x 10 stretched canvas and mask off an area using masking tape in the center that is approximately 6 x 8, paint in using orange acrylic paint. Set aside to dry.

11. Get out the cover for the book, add black ink pen lines to re-draw clothes on woman. Sew on a button at the side of the cover.

12. Get out the book page, stack them one on top of the other and sew a simple stitch in the center to hold them together.

13. Glue the book to the canvas in the middle of the orange rectangle, before gluing down add a 2" length of ribbon to be glued under the back page of the book as well.

14. Glue the cover of the book to the first page of the booklet, this way none of your stitches for the button will show when the book is opened.

15. After it has dried, you can wind the ribbon around the button to hold the book closed.

16. Choose a couple of sentences that describes or tells a story about the person on your book cover. Write the words in pencil around the orange border, when you have them how you like them, go over the pencil lines with ink pen.

17. For a finishing touch add ribbon around the edges of the 8 x 10 canvas.

RESOURCES :

Collage Discovery
by Claudine Hellmuth
ISBN: 1581806787
Northlight Books

Acrylic Paints
Golden Artist Colors, Inc.
Website: www.goldenartistcolors.com

PITT Artist Pens
Faber Castell
Website: www.faber-castell.us

Fredrix Artist Canvas
Tara Art Materials
Website: www.taramaterials.com

GUESTS :

Claudine Hellmuth
Website:www.collageartist.com