INSPIRATION ART
Week Seven
(c.n*)
april 27, 2009
the inspiration:
the result:
"nelle nubi: in the clouds"
wooden frame, paper, ink, paint, twigs, pine cones, grass, pebbles, satin flowers, beads, ribbon, tulle, plastic leaves.
A lot of my friends have expressed interest in helping choose the INSPIRATION each week, or they suggest certain images or themes. Some have even emailed me images that they think I will enjoy (and I certainly do). This week, I let my roommate, *Caitlin Nadeau choose Inspiration. Pasta. I immediately saw the birds nest shaped pasta and thought 'nature'. I thought it would be an easy task, but it took me three weeks to finally settle on something. I originally tried to transfer images of fern onto an Urban Outfitters bag, but it adhered too well and I had trouble getting the image to show through. I held the frame vertical at first and used leftover fern paper and cut out large block letters that read "NATURE" and used the pebble idea with cheesy red flowers at the bottom, painted the frame this purplish-pink-gray color and let it sit for two weeks. I also tried to crackle the frame using a base coat of gold and an overcoat of the purple concoction. I used Elmers clear glue and it didn't work to crackle the top coat. I have used carpenters glue before and it worked wonderfully....didn't have that on hand, so I used what I had and it failed. Now I know. The clear glue created dried paint and glue globs so I sanded it down, turned the frame horizontal, used different flowers, painted over the gray-pink mush and changed the background paper.... and I am okay with it. I made a girl flying out of the nest and wrote the text in Italian because of pasta. It reads, "Nelle Nubi: in the clouds" Put some pine cones in the nest instead of eggs and away we go!
(c.n*)
april 27, 2009
the inspiration:
the result:
"nelle nubi: in the clouds"wooden frame, paper, ink, paint, twigs, pine cones, grass, pebbles, satin flowers, beads, ribbon, tulle, plastic leaves.
A lot of my friends have expressed interest in helping choose the INSPIRATION each week, or they suggest certain images or themes. Some have even emailed me images that they think I will enjoy (and I certainly do). This week, I let my roommate, *Caitlin Nadeau choose Inspiration. Pasta. I immediately saw the birds nest shaped pasta and thought 'nature'. I thought it would be an easy task, but it took me three weeks to finally settle on something. I originally tried to transfer images of fern onto an Urban Outfitters bag, but it adhered too well and I had trouble getting the image to show through. I held the frame vertical at first and used leftover fern paper and cut out large block letters that read "NATURE" and used the pebble idea with cheesy red flowers at the bottom, painted the frame this purplish-pink-gray color and let it sit for two weeks. I also tried to crackle the frame using a base coat of gold and an overcoat of the purple concoction. I used Elmers clear glue and it didn't work to crackle the top coat. I have used carpenters glue before and it worked wonderfully....didn't have that on hand, so I used what I had and it failed. Now I know. The clear glue created dried paint and glue globs so I sanded it down, turned the frame horizontal, used different flowers, painted over the gray-pink mush and changed the background paper.... and I am okay with it. I made a girl flying out of the nest and wrote the text in Italian because of pasta. It reads, "Nelle Nubi: in the clouds" Put some pine cones in the nest instead of eggs and away we go!
**gmb
1 comment:
its lovely. i want to see a picture of all your pieces together on a wall! it bet it looks so cool, like the worlds awesomest altar or something.
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