Crazy, crazy, CRAZY!

I havent posted in forever, not because I havent been doing art, but just because I have only had enough time to squeeze the art in between everything else thats been going on lately. Zero uploading time available! After having my Dad, step Mum, and Little Sis and Bro visit during October, we had two weeks to get organised for my eldest's 5th birthday and here we are into November already- panicking for Christmas!

 Here is the birthday cake! Including a chocolate chest filled with edible jewels!

Here is a picture of the mural I made for the birthday party- that has now been relocated to his bedroom!

Parisienne

Parisienne was an experiment in pushing a tutorial from an old issue of Cloth Paper Scissors past what it said to do. The central image more or less follows the glue and paint and paper layering techniques in the tutorial, with a little of my own improvisation added.

The end result turned out nicely, but I wanted to take it further, so i flipped over a stretched canvas, added the french music sheets inside it, and added some of the papers from the central images around the outer edges to make the "frame".

I added painted sections, and then hot glued around all the edges of the papers. I painted the glue a mix of gold and bronze, and then aged everything with a wash of black paint.

This piece is currently listed at my Etsy store.

Now, where's my beret?

Prizes from August's Competition.

I know I have been lazy of late with posting new stuff, but alot of the non-art part of my life has been invading the scheduled art-part of my life, and leaving me a bit behind.
Here are the two pieces from last months call for "lab-rats". Stacey McKinnon and Carrie Danczak have won these Affirmailtions; "Adore" and "Cherish", and even got a mini studio tour to check out what I was working on next!

They have both decided to be selfish (or inherently intelligent-depending how you look at it) and keep these Affirmailtions for their homes.

Congratulations again! Now...back to work-guess i have to get started on this months prize!

Heirloom Pumpkin Patch

"Heirloom Pumpkin patch"

After having so much fun making my last batch of pumpkins, I decided to go with Wanda's idea of a pumpkin collage (thanks!), and this is the result.

I used the inner roll of brown cardpaper from the gift wrap i used on the weekend, and sewed it onto some heavy watercolour paper. Then I cut squares of canvas and sewed them to the background.

I drew up my three pumpkins, to make a pattern for the scraps, and made the nine pumpkins out of various paper scraps, including music manuscript, newsprint, rice paper, straw paper, some veiney paper i saved from a christmas gift basket, some sewing patterns and some cheesecloth.

Then i sewed these to the squares, all higgledy piggledy (i cant sew neat even if i wanted to anyhow).

I glued everything to a square of masonite (recycled from an old mirror frame), lightly burnt the edges of the watercolour paper, and painted both the showing masonite, and the watercolour paper cream.

I coated everything in beeswax, and embedded some vintage buttons Wanda gave me around the edges on the masonite.

I am so happy how this whole piece turned out, it was one of those works that i couldnt leave. I was thinking of entering it into the Cloth Paper Scissors Artisan Search, but as luck would have it, I read the fine print and the damn thing is only open to U.S. residents! Well pooh!

At any rate, I have a great new artwork to put up on my wall this thanksgiving when my Dad and his family comes over for the first time. Excited...YES!

Fall is here!

The weather is cooling off, the leaves are turning. Fall is Here. I decided to get my fall on and create some cute pumpkinny postcards. These are still in progress, but are they ever fun to make.

Propaganda for my Etsy Store!

I am getting ready to set up for art walk tomorrow, and so I've been making print ads for my Etsy store; Propaganda style!