It had been way too long since I had done any work on canvas. So I pulled out the largest canvas I had on hand and began the piece of work I am calling Thank you, Mr. Edison. First I randomly rolled on three colors of paint. I already knew I wanted a second chance working with a stencil I purchased from The Stencil Library . I missed the curve (learning curve that is) on the first try and that was months ago. It was definitely time to have another go at it. Once the background was dry I stenciled the first sheet of a three part stencil that looks like this. The first time I tried this I had the stencil flipped to the other side. That resulted in some problems with the next two sheets of the stencil. They didn't line up and although it is probably able to be salvaged, it's just not right as you can see in the next photo. When I did this one, I painted it on fabric. I was totally oblivious that parts of the background need to show through t