This canvas was for sale at the Anonymous Art Show this past December. I watched as some really excited woman bought it off the wall right before my eyes. It was pretty cool! It was one of those canvases I created and really loved and could have kept for myself. It sold for $100. I was thrilled!!
I had the idea of using the image of this canvas for a journal cover but I didn’t want it to be exactly the same sooooo I decided to print it out and do a gel transfer of the image to see how it would look on a cover. Given the word WISH is on it I had to remember to flip it so that I printed off the mirror image otherwise it would transfer backwards and that wouldn’t be good at all! It turned out pretty good.
The peeling process began and it was actually working.
I added some paint around the final transferred image and then just to make it look just a bit different I re-printed the original dandelion picture, tore out the “wish” part and adhered it over top of the transferred image. I added splashes of other paints and the end result…well, it’s for sale in my Etsy shop.
I hate letting other people use my camera. You see, I have a thing, it’s called a little OCD and a little controlling but it’s my camera and I like my camera to be ready, perfectly empty for when I want to use it. I use it and then immediately upload the pictures into its special folder designed just for that particular photo op reason. There is nothing more irritating for me than uploading pictures and finding other pictures are uploading that I didn’t take let alone want on my computer or in that particular file. Many people (husband) say to me “What does it matter, just delete them.” He’s right, that I can delete them, but it does matter because that’s not my way and I like things just so. He’s learning, he now asks to use my camera and I politely say “No, use yours” and then he says “Mine’s broken.” and I say “Exactly why I don’t want you using mine.” Sometimes though, I’ll let it happen. Tessa is the biggest extra user of my camera. She’s getting better at asking too. When she does use my camera she’s extremely camera happy and I have to sift through about 200 or so shitty pictures to clear my camera BUT and I say BUT with big capital letters because every now and again, from her angle of the world she will capture a shot that makes me think.
This particular picture I kept. Tessa was thrilled I kept a few pictures, although she wasn’t thrilled that I named her folder “Tessa’s yuck picture”, oops! I told her I was keeping this one and she said “Oh, thanks Mom, you like that sign?” This sign sits on our property. I told her it wasn’t the sign in particular that I liked but what the sign said and the way, from her angle, she captured the sky along with the sign. She asked if I was thinking of making a book with it and I said yes. She couldn’t quite figure out why so I told her. Many people feel trapped inside themselves as if they have “No Exit”. When people keep a journal it’s as if they have an exit. Tessa liked the idea and thought I was brilliant. I then took my idea and bantered it back and forth with 
masterpieces.
