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How to Mount Fiber Art on Canvas Tutorial PLUS Art in Progress (Lovecicles)

May 10, 2018 by Clara Nartey Leave a Comment

Free Download: How to Mount Fiber Art on Canvas Tutorial

Have you been following my #DrawwithClara – 30 Day Drawing challenge on Instagram? I transformed the very first sketch I drew in the challenge into this textile art piece I’m calling “Lovecicles”.  In this post, I’ll be sharing with you the progression of the piece and I’ve got a video at the end that ties the entire process together. I’ll also show you how to mount fiber art on store-bought canvas.

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By the way, what a challenge!!! It was really tough sometimes. I’ve never drawn so much in any 30-day period before. But the results have been great. The practice has helped me create my first piece in the series – “Lovecicles”. So it’s truly been all worth it. I’m going to donate “Lovecicles” to SAQA’s 2018 benefit auction. 

Let’s get right to it. Here’s a 1-minute video of me speed drawing the initial sketch. (Click to watch).

https://www.instagram.com/p/BhH2P91nN-a/?taken-by=claranartey

And here is the “pioneer”  sketch.

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“Lovecicles” pencil sketch

Then starting from the lower left-hand side, I began to cut out fabric pieces to create a collage.  I started with my orange hand-dyed fabrics (can’t wait for warmer weather to start hand-dyeing again). 

Creating “Lovecicles”

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Starting fabric collage for “Lovecicles” using orange hand dyed fabrics
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Adding blue fabric pieces to “Lovecicles”

Moving along, I continued to work on the top portion of this shape. I toyed with different values of blue, ranging from light to dark. I eventually would redo the entire shape in dark blues,

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Toying with different values of blues in “Lovecicles”

Then I decided on this blue.

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Forming the dark blue rope in “Lovecicles”

So many fabric scraps as a result of all the cutting.

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Fabric scraps from making Lovecicles
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Light blue collage switched for dark blue collage in “Lovecicles”

Then, I also switched the left-hand side from light to dark to match the right-hand side and I attached it to the background fabric.

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Collage fused to the background fabric

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Initially, I started with a completely black fabric for the background but I decided to add some depth to it by painting it with grey acrylic paints so you’ll see the grey shapes in some of the detail photos,

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Mixing acrylics to paint my background

The next step was to thread shade.

Here are detail photos of my thread shading.

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“Lovecicles”, Threads, Acrylics, Dye on Cotton, (Detail view)

 

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(Detail view) “Lovecicles”, Threads, Acrylics, Dye on Cotton, 

 

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A detail view – “Lovecicles”, Threads, Acrylics, Dye on Cotton,

 

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“Lovecicles”, Threads, Acrylics, Dye on Cotton, (Detail view)

After thread shading, I cut the edges of my fiber art piece to get them nicely squared.  Then I used my favorite edge finishing technique – facings – to finish the edges.

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“Lovecicles”, beautifully, faced edges, with nicely-squared corners. What is there not to like about my simple facing technique

How to Mount Fiber Art on Stretched Canvas

To mount the finished piece on canvas, I tried a new method which involves using velcro strips.  Traditionally, I sew sashing strips to the sides of my piece and staple to the wooden frame without finishing the edges.  This time, I wanted to explore completely finishing the edges with facings.  And then subsequently, attaching it to the wooden frame – a two-step process. 

Here’s a quick look at the process.  Download the ebook to get detailed instructions.

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The first part involved facing Lovecicles like you see two photos above and in several pieces shown here. After adding the facings, I could have just stitched them down and it would have been ready for display.  But as I said earlier, I wanted to give it some more display options by mounting it onto a stretched canvas. To do that, I employed the help of a hook and loop velcro set and a blank canvas.

Then the second part started with me pinning one-half of the velcro strips onto my attached facing strips. 

Then I sewed it down my sewing machine, not by hand. This way, I didn’t have to hand sew them on.

I attached the velcro to the back of my finished piece and fastened it to the stretched canvas.

Ta da !!!!!!!!!!

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Side view of “Lovecicles” (mount fiber art on canvas)

And here it is displayed on a table.

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“Lovecicles” displayed on a table

And here’s the video. It shows the process from the beginning to the thread shading part.

 

To get step-by-step directions on how to mount your fiber art piece on stretched canvas download this FREE ebook, I created for you. It’s got 20 PLUS photos to illustrate the steps and instructions on how to install hanging hardware to the canvas.

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Mount fabric art on canvas |Lovecicles | fiber art | fabric collage | fibre art | textile art | art textiles | art quilt on canvas

I want to hear from you. How do you display your fiber art? Any challenges?  Leave your comments below.

Warmest Regards,

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