Before I started making the season fabric paintings, I settled on the idea of making 2 seasons instead of 4. The reason behind this is that designers all over the world usually put out a collection containing 2 seasons every year, either a Summer/Spring collection or an Autumn/Winter collection. At first, I decided on doing a contrast season collection, which is the Summer vs Winter collection. However, I decided upon different selections of seasons (explained on my "Autumn Leaves" page)

Using the first canvas I finished for the winter season, I used 5 different colours of paint: white (cotton ball), white pearl metallic, grey (dolphin), light blue (blue lagoon) and blue (true blue). For the previous materialisation, materialisation number 8, I used the usual acrylic paints you usually find at the craft store, which is the ones with the tube packaging. One problem I had with those is that when I mix it with the PVA glue and water mixture, it doesn't dissolve well, there are still some residue of the paint. So, I wanted the liquid acrylic paint that can be seen on bottles, like the ones below.

I mixed PVA glue and water, approximately balancing both the liquids 50% each. Then, I mixed each of the paint with the glue mixture on a large cup, with the glue mixture a bit more than the paint. I also mixed the paint mixture with some silicone liquid, form the silicone spray, to let it open more cells (circle patterns) when the pouring is done. I then began pouring the paint mixture randomly on a small cup, a shot cup. After I had a good amount of cups with the mixtures, I placed it onto the fabric canvas randomly and poured white paint mixture on the sides of the cups so that the paint could flow better, to make the pouring easier. 

After this went on, I took of the shot cups from the canvas one by one and let the mixtures flow as it is first. Then, I began moving the canvas to find a good print shown and so covering the sides with the overflowing paint using my fingers. I placed it on the bbq tins to keep the pattern there, not moving, and sprayed a silicone and water mixture onto the wet canvas to allow more cells. I left it to dry for a while after. You can see that it got a tad messy while doing this kind of thing.

I was devastated to see how the denim looked like when it was drying. It looks mouldy as the denim comes to the surface as shown below. The denim clearly didn't absorb the paint as it was too thick.

I didn't liked how it looked one bit, so I decided to scrape off the drying acrylic on top of the denim. 

The denim looked so ugly and if I poured paint on top of it, the scrapings would show. So, to solve this, I decided to put another denim layer on top of that one. I just glued it down with spray adhesive to put it in place.

Pouring a more watery mixture of the acrylic mixture onto the new denim base and used a few scraping techniques to it made the denim absorb the mixture better. I then sprayed more water on top of the denim so that it looks like its poured and it doesn't show the lines left from lightly scraping it. I also had to touched up the cotton-linen area as the big red words from the christmas apron shows through the paint. I covered it with paint on top to make it look seamless. 

When it is completely dried it looks like the image below.

Because I thought the canvas looks a bit bland, like there's nothing special, I wanted to add something on top that will make it look more appealing. In this case, I thought about using silver leaf on top of it to make it look amazing. Initially, I just placed small bits of it randomly, and it turned out great, as if snow is falling down.

But at this point, I still thought the canvas was still too simple and not that appealing to me. As I was making this the same time as I made my autumn canvas, I wanted to blend the both of them together as if it is transitioning, so I decided to put more silver leaf on the edges of the canvas and ends of the distinct fabrics as if it is freezing/frozen. I also decided to put it on the sides of the canvas so that it looks like it is genuinely frozen. I really love the outcome of the canvas after. It really looked like as if the canvas is freezing, with the way I laid the silver leaf in place. I decided to name this winter canvas "Winter Freeze" because of how it turned out like winter is freezing or frozen. It makes you have chills when you see it. You can really imagine and visualise winter when you see this piece. 

I really liked the final outcome that I decided to use it as my phone wallpaper. You can use the final print to whatever you like, it could be a phone case, laptop cover, or anything you like.