When I made the hexagon panels for Japanese Yuzen style painting, there are some scrap pieces of linen canvas left. The leftover canvas pieces are generally triangle shape and hard to make them onto a regular wood panel as whole. But I don’t want to discard them like that because those are nice quality linen canvas. So I figure I will keep doing my upcycle projects.

For this project, I pre-cut the triangle linen canvas into random square shapes or rectangle shapes. Basically I cut out a large square first and then fill in the little square and rectangle. Then I try to mapping them onto a wood panel. After I can cover almost entire wood panel, I glue them piece by piece with pH neutral adhesive. Once it is fully dried, I apply a layer of gesso and lightly sand the panel. Therefore, every piece in between the gold liner is a separated piece of linen canvas no matter the size. The several solid gold squares are also individual linen canvas.

In the beginning I was planning an all blue shades painting. I did the underpainting with all blue colors but it seemed like kitchen tiles. So then I decided to paint more patterns inside each square/rectangle.

I save the 8 large square pieces for special pattern. I want them to look like a pre-history cave art with symbol. I paint what I think of at that moment. Soon I realize that I can make them into a series.

I don’t have a particular meaning of these figures and symbols yet, but maybe I will fill in their stories one day. 😀

I hope you enjoy this upcycle project.