My first canvas. By sb, aged twentysomething

This is the first time i’ve ever used canvas. Yes, i’ve been to art school, but i avoided it there. I just didn’t feel ‘ready’, or maybe even particularly motivated to.

So how did this experiment in canvas turn out?

It was okay

I enjoy working with pencil (which looks a bit funny on canvas) – ah, maybe next time gloss the canvas so the surface is mo smooth

also scrunching or origami’ing the canvas is… err.. yeh

all in all – it’s an option. but it has it’s limits. I think i could sell it – it’s the kind of thing you could put on the wall with ease, more in alignment with what people would expect visual art to be like. But if i cut through this canvas, suspended it from the ceiling, soaked it in a bath of red dye…. well for me it would be way more exciting but perhaps for a buyer, not so much

at least i know now what to do – scissors, red dye and suspension!

being precious is the death of art!