If you are a proficient artist you could paint the canvas and give the canvas & easel as a gift itself.
I, however, am not that accomplished an artist. My suggestion would be to find a copy of your friends favourite picture and glue it onto the canvas so they have a mini version of their favourite picture to display. PVA glue would be ideal for this job as you can coat the top of the picture to give it a varnish like finish. Once the picture was dry, I would then superglue the canvas to the easel ensuring the easel can still open fully and stand.
You can write a gift message over the painting if you want this to be purely a gift tag. Alternatively you could write on the easel or use a luggage tag to attach to the easel.
I'm a massive fan of a gift boxes so I would attach the easel to a gift box making sure this could be removed with no damage. You could also thread a ribbon through the easel to hang on a larger gift.
These mini canvases would also work work in a children's party bag or christmas stocking for budding artists!
Those pics you did depicting Brighton weekend were great and they would look really cool if you were to do them on the canvas as a personal thing for the person. Dont sell your artist-ness short Mrs M.
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