The first canvas has quite a story to it. Mr P. loves his Land Rovers. He used to have heaps of magazines, but one day decided to have a clear out. At this point we were just going out, so he showed me his favourites he'd saved that Saturday morning when I went over to visit. We eventually came up with the idea of making a collage on a canvas with them - rather than keeping them hidden in a folder or drawer. Anyway, off we went for a spin to Haddo House, came back with a sparkly ring ;) and Hobbycraft was first on our list of places to go, haha! With the canvas bought, we finished the collage that evening - so it's quite special to us both :)
It's quite a deep canvas, so we found as many landscape images as we could in the magazines, cut them out and arranged them on the canvas so that there was enough to completely cover the sides - we probably had about 10 magazines to work with so there was plenty choice! Some of Mr P.'s favourites were very carefully cut out to go over the landscapes to blend it together as one image. For example, the one in the bottom right corner looks as if it's coming out of that valley, and the top right corner looks like it's going along that road, whereas it was actually us that put them there as a wee story :) And to finish it off, we put a little Land Rover badge in the top left corner :) So after 3 years in 3 sitting rooms it moved into DJ's room, passed on to him!
To keep the Land Rovers company, and as this wee boy is fond of any vehicle that has wheels and an engine, we made a similar one with tractors! Rather appropriate for here as a farming community, and this time it was DJs Great Auntie and Uncle who donated the magazines :)
This one took us much longer than the Land Rover one as we had less to work with (just 2 magazines) and the canvas size and shape proved a bit more complicated to fill nicely. After many weeks of being hidden under the blanket box, on the table and in the wardrobe it was completed!
This one was done in a similar way with finding landscape photos (very few and far between!) to cover the blank bits and edges and carefully arranged it all so it looked good. Below you can see the tractor has been carefully cut out around the front wheel and nose and then the trees in the background were cut to mimic those in the landscape photo! This was Mr P.'s creativity :) After it as finished and stuck down we went over it with a few coats of PVA, but it went a bit wrinkly :( We used spray mount for the LR one, then PVA coats and it definitely worked better than using PVA the whole way through. We put a logo from the obliging magazine in the bottom left corner to finish, and DJ loves it!
It's a great way to re-use magazines - I'd love to do one with flowers from gardening magazines or castles and stately comes from National Trust magazines... Many posibilities and it cheers up a room in a personal way without costing much. :) If you have the magazines in and gathering dust that is, they can be so expensive!
I'd love to see if any of you give it a try or if you've done anything similar! DJ loves it and makes grunty engines noises when he sees them haha! :D
Kathelle x
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