Canvas completed at last

Last Weekend I took a couple of classes with Tracy Scott at Art From The Heart in Harrogate, Yorkshire. A beautiful part of the country. It's a good two and a half drive for me but some of the views on the way up are breathtaking! I never finish a project in a class I'm too slow! But I do enjoy spending time on it when I get home. So today I'm posting pics of my completed canvas from the Saturday workshop. I didn't take enough step by steps but you should get the idea. I pretty much followed Tracy's directions, even her colour choices but tweaked it all a bit and added my own doodling. Problem is I never know when to stop! I'm still itching to add yet more doodles so I'm sitting on my hands! Hope you like it. Thanks Tracy for a great class.

We used a selection of Amsterdam acrylics and Dina Wakley acrylic paints. But it all actually started with smearing two or three colours across a Gessoed canvas. Like this:

Whoops looks like I didn't edit and crop this one. I added various marks in contrasting colours and then some stamping until it looked like this:

Now the fun started! I drew the flower ( under Tracy's direction) and added various circles, probably too many but ah well, I love circles!  This wasn't easy as there is so much detail in this background. In the end I went straight in with Pitt pen as I couldn't see the pencil. Risky. Had to get it right first time! Then I painted complementary colours around the painted images. At first I used four colours but soon got rid of one colour as it developed. I've done this before with Dyan Reavely, painting 

around a figure or image in a dark coloured paint. But this was more fun if more fiddly. The next two pics just show further stages in the development! 

I'm not happy with the font I chose but I chickened out of using my own handwriting on this occasion. These words are from a Stencil Girl word stencil. 

Thankyou so much for stopping by. I still have my whimsical animals to finish before I can post those too. I'd love you to let me know you popped in!