I had been planning to stain the deck today…well actually we were going to start yesterday…but it’s been  so cold that at times there are snow flurries in the air.

I already had “painting” on the brain, so I decided to work on a canvas that I’d covered over the previous painting with gesso and left for the past…well, forever.

Earlier today I took this photo while trying to decide what else it needed.

I took a “type” rubber stamp to it in a couple of places and then decided I hated it. I then grabbed a wet rag to try to scrub the ink off in places. As I was scrubbing I was liking the effect. More scrubbing and I was liking it even better.

After all the scrubbing, I did go back and add a few more bits of paint here and there.

There are lots of layers on this canvas…just the way I like them. Lots of wrinkles from tissue paper, some modeling paste, book page scraps and the found text that has become the title of the piece.