Visual Artist
Each paper clip represents one completed box. I clipped the postcard image to the background paper and matched each set with it’s box. As I moved through the boxes to apply the papers and image, I put the paper clip on the hook on my worktable.
Here are some of the ones I created – now ready for the fun part – embellishments!
I got the insides of all the boxes done. I find this part a bit tedious. All about being very neat, getting the edges just right, etc. Plus, it is just really a lot harder working on the inside of a space. Still, the time I spend on these is meditative – contemplating all the curious things in our minds that have to do with boxes and these spaces they create. Here are the first two:
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!
These pieces all seem to be about dreams. This one is 24 x 30 – mixed media encaustic (coated with beeswax). Enjoy! I’m moving on to matching painted backgrounds (colors) with vintage french postcards for use in making 30 boxes. Whew – that is going to be a big project which I hope to do this weekend. I’ll keep you all posted!
Today’s art (yesterday’s actually) was created from the techniques I learned at ConvenZioNE again. These are all found paper coated with beeswax. This first one, 145 Parlor Games, is on a 9×12 canvas. Beeswax is fine on this non-rigid surface.
These two are more of the IKEA mirrors, each 9×9 wood with a small mirror in the middle. The art on these pieces was inspired by using some very old paper I found when I unframed a really cheesy fruit decal that I bought last week at the thrift store. More will be revealed about that piece when I use it later. Anyway, the paper was so luscious with all the aging and streaking from sun and damage over time, but that all but disappeared under the beeswax. However, these are my foray into something more minimal, which is extremely challenging art for me to do. I do like Key No 13 a lot though.
This piece measures 12×36 on wood and was done over a Beatrix Potter wooden wall hanging. I should have taken a “before” photo. Basically, it was a large poster firmly mounted to this piece of wood. Very sweet, but I gessoed over it, then went to town with my images from Le Petite Echo de la Mode catalog. So many wonderful vintage images I have from this find I got in Avignon in 2006. I call this Dreaming of America.
