The flicker of an idea for this piece started when I found this wonderful 19th century map of London on Google images. I printed it out enlarging it 200% and used matte medium to affix it to an old composition board that I found lying around the garage studio.
I used four stencils from Mary Beth Shaw's Stencil Girl -
the 9x12 "Web" and the 6x6 "Web", "Gears" and "Rafters".
And one from Artistcellar's "Cathedral" series,
I painted with my palette of Liquitex acrylics in
Red Oxide, Unbleached Titanium and Noir Black.
A few squirts of Ranger's Adirondack Butterscoth Color Wash gave a nice vintage feel.
Once it was dry I began to play with positioning
a few collage elements and embellishments,
including this old CD that looks like a vintage clock,
and a handful of various gears. Not finished yet,
but a promising start. I'll keep you posted!
nice!
ReplyDeletei like the idea of the CD with a clock face ... did you collage the clock image on to it? or was that the image on the CD when you got it? (i have a million old cds and was thinking this might be a good use for them?)
love it.
Rebeca - The CD came that way - it was a discard from the library. I've been playing around with the piece and tried some other things in place of the CD, Not sure yet what the final outcome will be.
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It looks good so far ~ I can't wait to see how it turns out!
ReplyDeleteBobbie - Me neither! Sometimes the finished piece ends up totally different from what I first conceived
DeleteErin.
wow!....looks amazing.
ReplyDeleteLove those "flickers" of an idea that blaze into Glory.
Lisa - And I know you have plenty of them!
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