November 01, 2006
Literal Fire
 | I've FINALLY finished this piece in response to Diane's Too Many Irons in the Fire book, and while it's taken me a thousand years, or so it seems, to finish it -- and my compatriots in the round robin have not taken me to task on it at all -- THANK YOU ALL! I had this idea for the piece, and I'm so pleased that it turned out exactly how I wanted it to. And I learned a lot from doing it. It's pen and ink on 140 lb watercolor paper with wc washes. so I learned how to draw brickwork and then an old metal door. (Not sure what that extra bit of fluff in the top left is, but it's not on the piece itself.) |
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 | Here's the door open. I cut the fire "flames" from painted wc paper using a stencil (this is what looked like leaves on CPS a couple of weeks ago). The door's attached with black velvet ribbon, and the piece is backed with rust handmade paper. This will go out in the mail to Paivi tomorrow!! YAY!!!!!!!!!! |
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August 28, 2006
Nest first page for Quintessential Round Robin
Sept is the start of a new Art Journal Round Robin, with five people, thus the name: Quintessential Art RR. And this is my contribution to my theme of "Feathering the Nest". The background is watercolor collage with handmade rice papers on top with a found image and found music...I love how the colors of the birds mesh with the background. So this will be on its way to Paivi in tomorrow's mail.
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