Get Creative Embellishing Canvas Photo Prints

For most people interested in creatively designing their interior spaces, injecting their personality into every detail, canvas photo prints are no longer a novel idea. Nothing brings your personality into a room like a bespoke piece of wall art generated from your own personal photo collection or your own taste in art and imagery, after all. And canvas prints are cheap and easy to create, allowing you creative freedom to try different ideas when designing a room, or to re-design a room over and over again as you wish.

But just because canvas photo prints are no longer an amazing new tool to you doesn’t mean you can’t rediscover that sense of excitement with them. Another aspect of the affordability of canvas prints is that it makes it easy to experiment with them as design elements, and one of the most exciting (and fun) things you can do with your canvas prints is to embellish them.

Hitting the Craft Room with Canvas Photo Prints

Your canvas prints are, after all, made of canvas: They’re designed for art, for creativity, and for a variety of gloriously messy materials. Embellishing your wall art can add plenty of surprising and delightful aspects to your photo art:

• Texture. Yes, canvas already offers plenty of rich texture for your walls, but why settle for just one look and feel? Gluing paper embellishments, coloured sand, pretty stones or just about anything else complements and challenges the natural grain of the material, making your photo prints into a real artistic statement.
• Depth. Adding embellishments also brings your canvas art subtly into the horizontal plane of the room, pulling the image off the wall slightly and giving it real kinetic energy.
• Light. Adding sparkle by way of glitter or shiny objects will also let the light play off your wall art giving you the added power that normally comes from mirrors and glass. Whereas plain canvas can be a bit absorptive and light-eating, adding some bling gives it a whole other dimension.

Embellishment Ideas

Of course, just slapping materials onto your canvas art may not be the most focused way to augment these pieces. You should always have a plan. Here are some quick ideas to get you into the spirit:

• Add Jewellery. A wedding photo? A portrait of Mum or your wife? Consider the jewellery they’re wearing in the photo, then find small bits of costume jewellery and paste them into place. This subtle detailing will bring the photo to life and draw the eye without overwhelming the intimate nature of the photo.
• Be Whimsical. When it’s portraits of kids or candid family photos you’re using for wall art, have fun: a paper crown for your children, perhaps, or cartoon animals pasted into the scene for a bit of whimsy that elevates the whole image.

The great thing about embellishment is that it can be comical and quirky, or subtle and serious. It’s all in your approach and goals. Step one, however, remains the same: choosing an awesome image to turn into canvas photo prints. When you know what photo you’d like to embellish, click here and we’ll get you the ideal starting point for your creative pursuits.