Harvest - Challenge #14
Ribbon, pressed flowers, stick-ons and mult-ilayered backgrounds make up this set of ATC’s on the Harvest Theme.
Entries Tagged as 'Crafts & Art'
Getting Over Angst Of Landscapes
“The work of art is a scream of freedom. - Christo
Landscapes are difficult for me for I am a closet perfectionist. It is difficult for me to see the landscape from the precise leaves, buds, and branches. This exercise has been good for me because I did the planet-scape first and then moved to the mixed mediums I used to do the other ‘scapes’. You can see me lose my tightness and control of the pieces as I went. I think I like the Smokey Californian sky best as far as earth-scapes go. But my favorite piece of this set of experiments is the planet-scape. I really had to allow my creative soul to scream its freedom through intuitive washes so it could give me a hint.
“Planet-scape” is pen, “Goodnight Van Gogh” is gold and silver and black pen with watercolor wash, “Lava Meets Sea” is done with acrylic and water color wash, “Farmer-scape” is pen and watercolor wash, “California Sky” is my impression of smoke in their sky, “After The Fire” is watercolor and pen on oil canvas.
Africa - The Doll
My second doll: I call her “Africa”. I used the antique spindle from an old mill, as the base and body. I sculpted hands and arms. I used material for the face and washed features on the material. I wrapped the doll with a dress made of striped material. Then I made the lined cape of old shower curtain material with fleece material that coordinated. I bead the cape all the way around and then attached it to the doll. I added a bead and two baubles and a hand pounded necklace that I made of gold and silver craft wire. I made the turban of the same fleece as the lining of the cape then added embellishments to it.
I think the most difficult to do was the washing of the features. The next difficult was sculpting little hands. I am think to put something in her hands. I have not quite decided yet. An offering of some kind, a little hand woven basket, perhaps. I have some corn husk material I saved, or I have some sisal. It will come to me when it comes.
I am falling in love with doing this type of art.
Intuitive Art - Moon and I Theme And Extras
This is wet on wet work with sumi brush definitions.
As I worked, I came up with more.
I think my favorite is Iris on the Windowsill.
Purse-shaped ATCs
I have completed four purse-shaped atcs, and do not know, yet, for
sure, if they need to go on a backing. folded, they are not the full
atc size so I am thinking about putting them on an atc-sized backing
with little hooks…buttons perhaps.
The lilac purse is made out of old satin and lace. The black and yellow and red purse is made out of background texture I experimented with in painting over tinfoil. The leather purse is beaded. The flower purse is made of heavy cardstock and has embroidery on it.
My challenge for today was to experiment and complete the purse shapes. Inside each purse I have tucked a note, a quote, or an embellishment.