Music Speaks by Barb

"Where words fail, music speaks."

~Hans Christian Andersen

This has long been on of my favorite quotes. As a musician, I know the beauty of being able to sit at a piano and play out feelings that are too much to express any other way. I treasure that ability. Music also is a international language. Put together a group of people from every country on the globe, cue a Mozart song, and they'll all get something from it. 

I began this piece by sponging gesso onto a 5 x 7" canvas panel. Once dry, I got a brush very wet with a few different colors of ColourArte's Twinkling H2Os and just blobbed and streaked them wherever they wanted to go. When the paint was dry, I stenciled on the treble clef with Imagine Crafts Creative Medium in silver and stamped a few notes on using Distress Ink.

I printed the quote on a piece of vellum cardstock and mounted it to a frame from the Victorian Silhouette Frame Set. This, as well as a bit of ivy from the Collage Frame Birds & Ivy Set, I coated with black acrylic paint. After the paint dried, I coated it with Imagine Crafts irRESISTibles in Tuxedo Black.

I love having this reminder that when all else fails, music is there.

Gina's Designs Products Used

 Victorian Silhouette Frame Set

Collage Frame Birds & Ivy Set

Other Products Used

Gesso

Acrylic Paint

ColourArte Twinkling H2Os

Imagine Crafts Creative Medium

Imagine Crafts irRESISTibles