OK. I made a promise. This week, I said that I would share some of my artwork. You know, this “assignment” that I gave myself ended up taking up a lot of space in my mind this week! I tried several times to take some decent pictures of my work – (easier said than done!) Hats off to those artists online who are actually getting decent pictures of your artwork. So anyways, here goes…
I am sharing three pieces today. The first one is one that I did several years ago. My sister (the blogger who writes Jackie’s Tesserae) came for a visit once and told me about these houses that you can create and so we made one. Two, actually. But *I* made one. A big accomplishment for me. I made it for my daughter and it turned out pretty decent but the pictures I take of it never quite capture it very well. It is difficult to photograph. She was just starting school then and so I put my own kindergarten picture in it (bottom left) and put the words “school” in there for her. It was a fun project and probably the start of my love of collage, which really began around that time.
As I have said before, I love collage. It is perfect for me because I can really mess a piece up and still salvage it by putting something on top of it. I am somewhat of a Type A personality, so for me to spend a bunch of time on a piece that I end up disliking is a real waste. Without collage’s forgiving nature, I am not sure if I could stand to create stuff.
The second piece is one that my daughter did yesterday. My daughter has a project due in school where she was asked to make a family crest (shield) and so I traced out the shield shape and cut it into four parts and we worked together to collage the parts. We only got two done last night, but the one in the photo is her section on Disney World, since it is one of her favorite places. I thought it turned out really good and she did most of it. All I did was offer her some direction and show her how to lay the background and use the modge podge. The little eyes in the lower right corner were totally her idea (I was against using so many eyes and wasting it…) but I like how it turned out. She said that there were lots of eyes at Disney World. (She’s 7. Don’t you just love how they think as children?) We haven’t cut it down to the shield shape yet. That is our next project. She also started one section on Nature, but it is not very far yet.
My last photo is what I worked on while my daughter was working on the family crest. It is just a little plaque. Kinda fun. Its not really done yet, but I wanted to get this out today so I took some photos of it.
NOTE: You can click on the photos to see them in a larger view.
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