Eons ago I bought a beautiful stretched canvas with art on it that I didn’t particularly like. It was the perfect size and shape to cover up anchored screw holes that were no longer needed to hold up a cabinet on my bathroom wall.
I love easy solutions to annoying little problems. I planned to one day paint over it with colours that better matched the weird purple fixtures that the original home owners chose, for reasons I can’t fathom.
One day we are also going to renovate this 1970’s bathroom because the fixtures are looking like hell. Well, they always did, but now they’re worn out as well.
So, the first ‘one day’ finally arrived and the canvas has been repurposed at last.
Here’s the process:
I painted over the original with gesso, added some glued on tissue paper and then sponged on colours I like better for the background.
Added butterfly and more bits of printed tissue.
Almost done. This is the part where I don’t know when to stop. Shapes with oil pastels, random stencils, ink stamps, splatter, and on and on until…..
Voila! Done. Back on the wall to cover up the holes. Until the renovation. Hey, it could happen! This did.
Breathing Space 
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