I made a lot of headway on my 30 Boxes project. I’m going to use painted paper and vintage French postcards (mostly French) to decorate a slew of boxes I’ve been collecting for some time. This is part of my commitment to use up all my art materials before I get anything more. Maybe it will be more like 35 boxes, but it’s a lot. Here are about 30 of them stacked up with the paper and image that will go on them. Next step is to clean the inside of each one, adding some internal lining if needed (most do). Then, I’ll gesso the outsides for a nice base to start adding material onto. My plan is to add these to the inventory of material to sell at my own “trunk sale” in the Fall. Stay tuned for my progress on these.
(Did I mention lately how much I love not working!?)
The boxes are small, large and everything in between. Old and not so old, wooden and cardboard. I have a little bit of a thing for boxes – hard to pass a good one up. And this is great re-purposing of them.
Here’s a close up of each paper and corresponding postcard stacked with it’s box. Yum!