My Most Favorite Collage Ever

I don't do a lot of collages usually. But I saw this face in a mag and I had to do this.
I used metallic paints for the background and just layered them over each other. I used colors that would compliment the butterflies. I was going to add some flowers and other things, but in the end I decided to K.I.S.S and just add some peacock feathers.
I just love the eyes, kind of magickal and almost little creepy and beautiful.
So there it is, my most favorite collage ever.
Peace

Winter Goddess Update

Someone asked me about this piece and how it was progressing. So here it is, but I'm not sure how it is. I still really really like the concept. But the Fox fur didn't sit like I thought it would. And I didn't line the pearls under her chin up exactly right. So the question is what to do with her. I don't like the way the fur sticks out from her head. And of course it is glued on. Maybe I will playwith hanging some crystal beads and white feathers from it to make it seem more full and close to the face. I don't know.
It's funny how you can have a picture in your head and be sure it will work and then when you try it...hmmm...
I'll keep you posted
Peace

Another Vintage Sewing Shrine

I'm lucky to have a bunch of vintage sewing ads and stuff. So when I came across this box it seemed perfect for another sewing shrine. The box is a cheese box, I think from the 30's or early 40's. I whitewashed it with gesso on the inside. I decided to leave the outside as is because I thought it was so interesting.

The ads decorating the walls are from 1913 and 1914. They come from 'A Womans Sewing Companion'. The stuff is from my stash picked up here and there.

I put a little pearl necklace on the dressmakers dummy. She is standing on a pile of vintage spools of thread.
The beige round thing on the back wall is a crocheted button.

These are so much fun to make.

Peace

I'm so flattered

My buddy Inka (visit her in my links) nominated me for this award. This is the second for me and I am flattered that 2 wonderful artists thought enough of me to do this.
So here are my nominated friends for this round:
Linda -http://jewelsoftheeast.blogspot.com/
Alphaneenee-http://funkytimeart.blogspot.com./
Kecia-http://lemoncholys.blogspot.com/
Kim-http://threadtales.blogspot.com/
Val-http://valsalteredheartjourney.blogspot.com/

So the way this goes is these are people who I feel contribute to the online community with their wit and art and generosity of spirit etc. So I E them and let them know they have been tagged and they do 5 of their friends and so on and so on.
I do hope you visit their blogs, they really are wonderful.
Peace

A Shrine and a Pink Piece

I really like the Old West. So I did a shrine to Annie Oakley. I found a bunch of images from the Buffalo Bill Wild West show and used them on the sides and in the attic.

I shingled the roof with shingles from the doll house section at Hobby Lobby. I used vintage lace and dried naturals and Birch bark and a piece of Oak for embellishments.

I used rice paper instead of dictionary pages like I usually do to cover the walls. I gotta say i didn't like working with it. I think I will stick to dictionary pages.
I put this in my Etsy store.

I was paging thru mags for no particular reason and I started pulling ads. The face is black and white, so I put some color in with crayons. Nothing else worked.

I did the background with oil pastels and sealed it before collaging on it. The ribbon on the side is made from paper. I thought it fit well with the lace. Then I added the pearls because I seem to be on a pearl kick lately.

I love the way the flowers are almost a hat or almost her hair depending on how you look at it.

This was just plain fun to do.Sometimes you just gotta play.

I put this in my store too.

Peace

Finished I think

Well, I'm not really sure if I'm happy with this or not. I know I am going to have to do something to the background. I like the layout. And the things on it. But I'm just not sure.
The dragonfly sticks up about 1/4 inch or a little more at the highest point. Which is the body and where the wings connect. I built up under the wings by the body with modeling paste and then tapered them down to lay flat on the board. The top trim is lace. The flowers are dried from our woods. The long grasses are twisted tissue paper.
There are tiny dried leaves along the bottom. They show up better in person. In fact the whole piece is better in person.
So I think I'll live with it awhile and see if it needs something more or not.

Peace

Making a Mermaid

Yay I can put up pics today! So here's how this piece came to be born. I garage saled the round piece of wood about 10 years ago. Just one of those weird things that you see and think 'I need to have that'. It was from something someone cut a whole in and my husband couldn't believe I paid a dollar for it. Then last year I was looking thru a mag and I saw an ad with this woman in it. It stretched across 2 pages, she was sitting in a desert. I really liked her hair so I cut it out and put it in one of my many files. Then a couple of months ago I was poking around looking for inspiration and I saw her again. And I thought 'Mermaid' which made me thing air bubble which made me think round which made me think piece of wood and there ya go.
So I painted the background and used sand and modeling paste for the seabed. Then i glued on the shells and coral.I put pearls in her hair because I thought she needed them and gave her a seed bead neckpiece to sort of hide her boobs. Then I gave her a wand because who wouldn't want a wand!

Her tail is made from large sequins cut into quarters and placed one at a time to overlap like fishscales. Her fins are fabric and netting.

I wanted to have some kind of seaweed or something, but I wanted it to be light and sort of 3-d. So I took floral wire and wound it up and covered some of it with ribbon and there she is!
So that's how a Mermaid was born!

Peace