Destination Europe: Farm in Finland
This project was different in two ways. It was our first experience with canvas. Yes, Virginia, there IS canvas for watercolors (we used Fredrix brand - sheets of gessoed material torn from a 9x12 pad)! HINT: read the manufacturer's flyer that comes with...all the way to the last sentence, because that's where you'll find out the unmounted-stuff warps/buckles LIKE CRAZY unless "secured" to a non-buckling surface... The other difference was in the capturing of images for the blog: scanning picked up a 'moire' pattern from the fabric weave, so tripod-photography was needed. I hope you'll see the possibilities of this challenging surface, even though you'll quickly notice several students were unable to complete their pictures. (p.s. I'm having trouble with the blog's 'add picture' function, so will add Miss Noel's work later.) Miss R. Fadler Inadvertaintly the 'covering power' of our opaque watercolors is illustrated in
