Fleur-de-lis Canvas

When I first visited a friend's new house, I found that her young daughter and I shared a fettish for France's fleur-de-lis.  We also love the color combo of pink/black/white with just a touch of gold when appropriate.  ")  So I set out to paint a canvas for her birthday.  Well, I have missed the mark by a month but am finally finished with the canvas.  I painted an 8"X10" canvas with Studio's "painterly pink", dry-brushing most of the color onto the canvas.  I then used Studio's "charcoal black" paint on my fleur-de-lis stamp.  I stamped this image 4X, once half off the canvas.   Finally I used Apple Barrel's acrylic white paint on my small fleur-de-lis stamp and stamped several X randomly on the canvas.  As an afterthought, I used a small brush pen to draw two black fleur-de-lis on the canvas.

I wrote on the canvas with the small brush pen and as I was about to upload it to my blog, I noticed that I had misspelled "fleur".   I had spelled it "fluer".  I could not believe I had even wrapped it and was ready to take it to Abby.  So I had to unwrap the gift and have a "do-over".  ")

Street Artists in Monmarte

The artist at this stand (in the grey striped shirt seated behind the display) did lovely pen and ink drawings and then watercolored on them.  They were very pricey (100s of euros).  So, I found some in a shop (copies of course) and bought them and will watercolor on them......eventually.  :)

I was not particularly fond of this artist's mono  colored cityscapes, but thought he had some nice store fronts canvases.  But they were 300-400 euros.  I may have to try to enlarge those and try my hand with some acrylics to see if I can come up with something similiar.