While doing some preparatory work and samples for my three pieces to be sent in for the Incognito art show, I developed these two as I liked where they were going.
Mixed media a5 size using paper, watercolour paint, rusted lace, cardboard , gold pen , aquarelle
I have been playing with Plaster of Paris making some leaf casts and putting plaster in molds. I made the plaster and spread over several small leaves from the garden. The plaster was too thin and consequently the finished set cast broke quite easily. Another leaf a Buchanhamia ( not sure of the spelling ) an Australian native with a pale yellow calistemon type flower that the lorikeets flock to. There must be oil on this leaf as the wet plaster slid off. Then I made the plaster thicker and got better results with a frangipani leaf and a mango leaf. Poured remainder in an egg shell and added a key ring to the setting plaster.
The small green leaves at the top have plaster on the other side. I can’t easily peel off the leaf so decided to wait until the leaf turns brown and it might make it easier. They have been like this for over a week now. Very hard herb , grows so easily .
Playing around this morning with a piece of cardboard that has had wax from saved candle dregs on the surface in a failed exploration for something entirely different. I really like the corrugations. They remind me of a long flight of steps leading to something wonderful , a temple, a view or the promised land. So with the inclusion of some cutout pictures and more cardboard it has become a collage of these few elements. Thinking of all the steps I’ve climbed ....Jacobs Ladder in Wickham Terrace Brisbane, Ankhor Wat in Cambodia, in Belgium at the site of one of Napoleons battles, l’arc de triumph . I’m going to think of more to add here , random climbs that when written down together become a collection. I wonder what the collective noun for climbs is?
At ATASDA we have revisited a popular activity from past group collaborations in the art quilting world. Making small cards with contact and social media information written on the back side. The front side is a small art work. So can be anything , drawing, collage ,painting , felting, and fabric. At ATASDA I led n inspirational exercise in one way to develop these small gems. This is to make a background piece of fabric or paper using a way to put a first layer that will be consistent throughout the pieces in the theme. Then cut apart and embellished individually. So mine have been based on a pieces of printed fabric that has been overdyed with indigo. The embellishing is with stitch. Each piece named and labelled as part of a series of art works.
