Shuswap Lake Festival of the arts portfolio-Pages 13-17

Fancy a dip?

So here is my third background. It was a lot of fun to make, i used a toothed trowel to get the "ripples". I then added mixed papers all over and then painted it.

I am currently rusting some wire for this piece, and i have lots more elements to create for all the pieces.

My fourth background is still drying as i had a two-step process for the texture!

More Yummy texture!

Here is another background that i started yesterday, and painted today. This one is simply golden crackle paste, and then painted with fluid acrylics. I may or may not change this one...

Mmmm...texture!

I thought i'd share/show off what ive been doing today. This is just the background, and its one of four that i started today using unsanded grout (yes the stuff you tile with) as a modelling base for texture.

This piece also has yummy holey tissue paper and some dryer sheets for more texture. Then i painted it like normal with fluid acrylics.

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Join my Altered Artifice page on Facebook here, (if you havent already), and once i have 100 fans (so get your friends to join too) i will start some competitions to win some of my art!
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letter fun!

Here is a little sneak peek of what ive been working on today...im finally getting Daniel's nameplate for his room done! Im still working on the "D", and im making a large mat for all the letters to sit on that is also collaged.

Im pretty happy how these have turned out, especially having been stuck on these things for almost a year!

"Aubade"

This is my second piece using the torn watercolour technique (i had so much fun making my heart my brain just started buzzing with new things to tear into existence!).

This one is called "Aubade", which is a cool word i stumbled across which means a song, instrumental or composition that concerns the dawn. I thought it made for an interesting idea to make a visual composition (the term usually applies to music) that might hint at the idea of the music of greeting the dawn.

To begin I used the same basic structure as i had for "Gemini", except i ripped only downwards after the first layer. After i had the basic shape in, i added torn pieces of watercolour paper inside the nest.

After layering my paint washes, I drew a bird (originally a sparrow) and its wing onto two pieces of watercolour paper and then painted them with "dawn" colours. I cut a slit into the body of the bird, and slipped the wing through and glued them. I added some copper wire to the back of the wing, and a small piece of wire to prop the wing up and then glued the body to my back ground.

I carved the small baby bird, with wing details. I then painted the baby bird to look like its parent. I made the eggs by dipping bits of sewing patterns into gel medium, and them rolling them into an egg shape with my fingers (very messy!). Once they were dry, i painted them with a thin wash of white paint. I then coloured them using blending chalk.

I glued all the eggs and the baby bird into the nest and voila! A greeting of the dawn!