Embroidered Collage

I had to use a ridiculous amount of acrylic medium to adhere the piece of scrim to the canvas since the fabric was heavier than the cheesecloth I'd worked with before and I wanted it to have textured, uneven edges instead of lying flat.  I had success with positioning the scrim, then working pulling one section up at a time and putting down gel medium, then adding liquid medium on top and working that in lightly with a sponge brush.  I had tried using gel medium on top at first, but working that in moved the scrim around too much and distorted it beyond what I was interested in.  It took over 24 hours for everything to dry enough to work another step on.

Since the image doesn't look too different from the plan at this point I decided to crop it down to what I expect will be showing on front of the 12"x12" stretcher bars when the piece is complete, just to show you something different.  As you can see, I also went ahead and sewed the purple fabric to the Peltex square as well as doing the collage work.  Next step - watercolor crayons on the one hand and embroidery on the other hand.