Friday afternoon - clumsiness and damaging paintings - how to fix a painting

Spending a quiet day at home. Haven't been up to too much art-wise, but I ended up in a BNR on Etsy today: http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4d473a58e1416d91ce37690b/open-open-open-bnr-round-2-no-minimum-1#4d558da368de8eef1dc8a783

Was a little frustrated that I poked a hole in one of my paintings while adding picture wire a couple of days ago. Can't believe I was so clumsy. Hopefully I can either fix it, or use the remaining painting in some sort of collage or something.

Update 2021: I'm not sure what a BNR is anymore so please don't ask. 😅 I think it might have been some sort of promotional group activity where we post items and then check it out. The whole idea was to generate sales.

As for the painting with the damage, I managed to repair it decently, and it's currently hanging in a community centre in northern Edmonton. I'll probably forget it there if we move.

It was another learning experience to fix it. I patched it with a small piece of scrap canvas, glued it in place I think with just white glue, and then matched the paint on the other side to hide the hole and make it look natural.

You can kind of see the little raised area in the wing. I was pleased with the final colour matching.