The 11th Hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month 16x20"
After four years and three months the horrific bloodshed of the Great War came to an end, at The 11th Hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month. I started this piece by painting blocks of colour in blue, red and cream acrylic. Rubber stamps and stencils were used for 11's in various fonts and sizes. Xerox copies of newspaper headlines from November 11, 1918 were adhered with matte medium and ragged ribbons in white, blue and red hang from the top corners.
A clock face with its hands pointing to 11:00, a large tagboard 11, and a copy from an English calender of November 1918 march diagonally across the piece from top left to lower right and reflect the title.
One more piece for my upcoming show The Pity of War, this April at the Allied Arts Gallery in Cambria
Erin, a lovely piece. That date/time/month always broke my heart somehow--it could have been stopped so much sooner. Thank you for this, and for explaining how it was made. I'm at the very beginning of making an artist journal and everything comes out cock-eyed and silly. I'm going to look at The Pity of War now. Thank you.
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