Photo-Montage

Looking at the Starn Twins work in my last blog post got me thinking about photo-montage and the endless possibilities. Just through taking a lot of photographs, either all of the same subject or photographs of a common theme or really whatever you want, and collaging them together like a jigsaw you can achieve the most amazing/original works of art.


below is a photo-montage created by David Hockney. He is a great example of the experimentation and fun you can achieve through photo-montage! The portrait subject is actually his own mother.
Another approach to photo-montage is taking photographs along the same theme and putting them together to create something completely different. I've noticed an increase in the popularity of collage work we do here and think that its a great way of taking digital images and through giclee on canvas turning them into something completely different. To check out some of the collage compositions we offer follow the link:
http://www.canadaoncanvas.com/include/canvas_photo_collages.php

Liquid Light

One of my favorite aspects of Darkroom photography is its experimental side, in this case experimentation with liquid emulsion, also know as liquid light. Liquid emulaion is a process through which you can transfer photograph's onto almost any medium. It allows you to set no limits with your photography, exposing onto fine art paper, wood, fabric, metal, glass etc. You could even expose onto canvas over a painting or digital Giclee printing (for info on canvas printing see http://www.canadaoncanvas.com/.

The Great Picture, seen below, is the result of a 9-month project involving 6 artists and 400 volunteers. The negative image is 3,375 square feet and dominates the aircraft hanger in Southern California where it was shot. It required more than 80 quarts of Liquid Light emulsion. This project displaying the limitless ends to liquid light.
You can order liquid emulsion form plenty of different websites and compared to the cost of photography paper it is not that unreasonable. Here are some rough guidelines for the liquid light process:
- first you will need your film negative or alternatively a pin hole camera.
- in the darkoom melt the emulsion by placing the bottle in a hot water bath, should only take a few minutes to melt.
- using a brush or sponge evenly coat your medium with a thin layer of emulsion, remembering to coat test strips in the same medium too as the exposure time will differ from material to material. Allow to dry, best left to dry in the absolute dark as opposed to under a safe light.
- once dry use your test strips to determine the exposure time and expose away! I found when working on fabric that the exposure time was greatly increased.
- develop as you would photographic paper except give it extra time in each tray. As the emulsion will soak into the mediums it will need to be in the developer longer to fully develop and if not left in the fix for long enough will keep developing once exposed to light.
- leave to dry





My favorite artists who use liquid emulsion in their work are the Starn Twins. Left is a piece their “Attracted to Light” series in which they turn bug close-ups into large scale photo-montages.

Wedding Photographers: Capturing Your Clients' Special Day on Canvas

A canvas print is a unique way to preserve the memories from a very special day in a couple's life.

When wedding photographers sell prints to their clients, it's now quite easy to offer them prints in a medium other than the usual photographic fine art print: Giclees on Canvas.

A stretched canvas print has a different kind of presence than a framed image. It creates an image that stands out from the wall and demands to be observed. With no need to frame and the Canvas's produced ready-to-hang, giclee on canvas is a easy way to turn images into works of Art.

Many of the orders we receive here at www.CanadaOnCanvas.com are of Wedding photographs. The orders differ immensely from large scale prints of the bride and groom, collages of moments throughout the day, group photographs of the bridal party to symbolic images celebrating their joyous day.

We also provide free shipping for orders over $99 to all of Canada and USA. To get an idea of our prices please follow the link to our canvas price calculator: http://www.canadaoncanvas.com/include/prices.php

Woodworking for engineers

Cool Woodworking projects including:
Woodworking machinery, Joinery jigs, Furniture projects, Wooden machines, Home improvement projects, Wood shop tricks, Gear template generator & Eyeballing game





I like this one too:


For more projects visit:
http://woodgears.ca

Taking old tresured photograph's and turning them into works of Art

The new trend of printing photo's onto canvas is a great way to turn your favorite images into works of art, whether it is a digital image that never made it out of your hard-drive or an old photograph you would like reproduced. We offer a scanning service that would allow us to scan and enlarge an old image, giving it a new lease of life.


Our finished products are gallery wrapped and ready to hang—that is, the canvas is wrapped around the sides and back of a wooden frame, then stapled to the back where it's hidden from view when the artwork is hung on a wall for display. A wire is also affixed to the back, and we package the hooks and nails for you to use for wall hanging.


Need a gift idea for paternal figure in you life? We are offering a 10% Fathers Day discount. Since we accept orders online, and offer free standard shipping across Canada and the US for orders over $99, that makes things a little more convenient for those of you outside our locale (we're located in Vancouver BC).

Check out our other facilities offers on http://canadaoncanvas.com/.