For about a week each night as I lay down to sleep I pondered how I would cover the canvas. What colours would I use? What techniques would best translate my ideas into something that was pleasing to look at?
I decided to use a mix of filigree and molded pieces. In relief trailing along a vine are 3 flowers and leaves. Filling in around the flowers are many colours making one think of a field full of wild flowers.
Along the edge of the canvas are flowers created using a mold and the spaces are filled in with rolled dots of clay.
Creating this covered canvas was a challenge for me and full of uncertainty. I walked away many times with my head spinning from all the bright colours. Each day I worked on it the spaces were filled in and it really began to feel like it would come together.
I did some brain storming with my good friend Tina Holden and we chatted on how to name the canvas. From our conversations I choose the name Blooming into Uncertainty. The uncertainty I felt while creating this canvas melted away at the end and I am thrilled with how it looks as a completed piece.
the canvas laying flat
the canvas propped up
a side view
the details along all 4 edges of the canvas
