Tuesday 12 February 2013

Handle with care!

Been busy doing ANOTHER art work that I cant show yet(makes my head hurt lol), so I needed to make something just for me.
I realised I hadn't tried out the technique from One Little Book Club, where we had looked at Mary Beth's "Flavour for Mixed Media", and this is the piece I created.

"Handle with Care"

The book is about using different stuff to create texture in your work. I decided to work on foam board, so that it didn't get too heavy, and chose a photo I printed off years ago but never used. 

I made some texture by pressing a bottle top into the foam base, then gesso and a piece of twine


Next I tore up some flowery backing paper...


and then dabbed paint on with a sponge (i like dabbing with sponge, I do it a lot)


I had already  fancy cut the figures from the photo, so I glued it in position, before painting more detail over the top(see first pic), using the flowers on the background paper as inspiration.


So this is my "Piece a week" that I can share for now lol
Enjoy :D XXX
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8 comments:

  1. Even though you know me and snakes [!!], I love how this turned out! xo

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  2. I think Jeanette and I have the snake thing in common. Despite that, the piece is awesome - love the combination of pieces you used and the colours, textures - just gorgeous, Gina. xoDonna

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  3. Oh that's fabulous, love how you've managed to use something you printed an age ago to create new!

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  4. Lovely to watch the process of developing this gorgeous painting. I would never have thought of using foam board and the way you made texture by impressing is so unusual. Inspiring piece of art.

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  5. Gina, this is very touching and beautiful! I understand about creating things, that you can't show yet! I just got Oma Linda's done and I will be creating something for Magaly's soon ;o)

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  6. What a great memory to make into a piece of art. :-) xx

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  7. That is pretty awesome. I love the gentleness of the whole thing.

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