Welcome to the Designer Crafts Connection Blog Hop with Smoothfoam. Many of us have seen Smoothfoam in our local Michaels stores. Most may be familiar with the Smoothfoam balls. I was excited to receive a few different shapes, but was instantly drawn to the Smoothfoam Discs. I have seen some fabulous canvases in the round, so when I saw these, I knew I wanted to use this 12″ Smoothfoam Disc as a canvas. Smoothfoam can be a great substrate for projects because it can be painted, sanded, carved, covered, etc.
I had fun with this one and it ended up completely different from what I started with. I started by covering the disc with gesso using a gift card, keeping some areas really thin to allow the real Smoothfoam texture to peek through. I used Golden paints in to create a basic background using a mixture of cobalt teal, titanium white, green gold, primary yellow, and phtalo blue. The background was not really working for me, until I turned the disc on its side. Now it was starting to speak to me. Next, I used various stencils from Creative Workshop and Dylusions along with some Ranger Dylusions sprays to add more depth to the background. Using vermillion, cadmium orange, and light magenta, I drew little circles with my fingers and a few light magenta swipes. Love finger-painting on my canvases too! I also drew circles around the painted circles with Liquitex Ink in raw umber. Finally, I spritzed areas with a water bottle and allowed the inks/paints/sprays to lightly blend and run creating fabulous ‘drippage’. However, once I dried it a little with my heat gun and while I was turning it around, I found I liked it even better upside down. So, glued a little Melody Ross textile tag to my canvas and Voila! I am proud to be artsy!
I love that I could create texture and depth on the Smoothfoam and that it dries really quickly. It is also now the lightest canvas I have ever created and will be easy to hang on my studio wall.
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Now make sure to click on the DCC link in my right sidebar to hop through and see some other fabulous designs from artists and designers from all areas of our industry creating some fun projects using Smoothfoam as well as enter for a chance to win a prize package from Smoothfoam consisting of a snowman kit and more.
