Yesteryears

Yesteryears

I've started working on art for this year's Open Studios Tour next October. This piece started with an old oil painting that I scrubbed over using pale pink and light apple green craft acrylics. I then attached the lace on the left hand side, the velvet leaves, the dolls jacket, the vintage book cover and the silk flower with heavy gel medium. The vintage frozen Charlotte, dug up in the grounds of an old German doll factory was adhered with E-6000. The hanger has been - wait for it - "hanging around" the studio for several years, waiting for this piece. I especially like the illustration at the bottom right, it's from a very old, falling-apart children's book. The book was made by sandwiching a layer of linen between 2 thick pieces of papers to make heavy pages for eager tiny hands. The 19th century version of today's board books. When the pages are torn they have delightful bits of raveling along the edges.