Words of Inspiration

I'm happy with the way my latest project turned out.

The first picture should actually show a white canvas, but I forgot that two years ago I had attempted to try something that didn't quite turn out and I started off by painting the canvas purple.  It's a purple I didn't quite like and really wasn't inspired at the time, so I tried to paint it white and gave up because I ended up finding a really nice wrapping paper that I wrapped the canvas with and, viola, instant art. 

I got tired of that and was inspired by a piece I saw at Bowrings earlier this year, but it  was way too big for any of the walls in my place so I thought that I could make my version of it or at least try.

The letters are foam from the dollar store and I chose these words because they, well, inspire me  :)

In the next picture, I glued the letters to the board and painted everything gold.

Then I mixed purple with some gold paint and you can't see it, but it has a shimmer to it. 

It took me a while to come up with a pattern to texturize the canvas and I ended up just putting gobs of paint on the canvas and making swirls and such.  Once it dried, I went over it again with the gold paint.  You can still see a bit of the purple peeking through - which is exactly what I wanted.