A Fabric Mosiac

This is my very loose idea of St. Basils cathedral on the Red Square in Russia. This came into my head while watching a dancing show. They had dancers from all over the world. There was a russian ballerina who was very graceful.

I've always been fascinated by the Cathedral. And I thought how pretty it could be to have a ballerina on point in black silouhette (how the heck do you spell that??)in front.

So this is going to be a 16x20 canvas. I am going to paint the background a solid color. The buildings will be made up of different fabrics adhered with matte gel medium. There will be the low fence in front made from textured packing paper/cardboard, then the square will be cobblestones probably made from torn coffee dyed dictionary pages.

That's the plan anyway. I am going to have the piece blown up and make 3 copies so I have plenty on hand for patterns.

Peace

A Really Good Hair Day

So this is a new assemblage piece I've been working on. I took a rubber/plastic dolls head and poked holes in it. Then I made hair from 20g colored wire and connected it.


Here you can kind of see that on the ends of her curls are crystals and beads and glass leaves and stuff like that. After I painted her metallic teal, I thought she needed some make-up. Sp I gave her yellow eyelashes and rose lips.

I am rethinking how to assemble her and onto what because I REALLY underestimated how much her head would weigh after she got hair. I used 80 plus yards of wire!!

Here she is balancing on a bottle so I could take her pic to share.

I also took 2 arms and painted them the same teal. I may give them yellow nailpolish. Or not. That's what I've been up to this week.

Peace

Let's Do A Charm Swap

So on Feb 14 I posted about joining the charm swap in Cloth Paper Scissors. And I had such fun making them I thought I would do a little swap here.

So if you want to play here's what to do.

Make 5 charms no bigger than an inch and a half. Make sure they have a ring for attaching. Make them out of whatever you want as long as there are no sharp edges or pointy hurty things. Have each one tagged with your name and E addy and town and state or country.

Send them to me by April 15 with $5.oo s&h. I will swap them and mail them by April 23rd.

The first 5 who leave a comment will be in this swap. I've never hosted a swap and figured I better keep this one small.

When you leave a comment I will E you with my addy. So make sure you leave your E addy.

I think that covers everything. I hope some of you want to play.

Peace

Playing With Wax

I have been offline for a week while this blasted machine was in the shop. But I'm back and this is what I've been doing. I have always thought the wax/encaustic look was very cool. But I didn't want ti have all the mess of a heating source and dedicated brushes and all that.

Then my friend Rose told me about a tutorial on Yolis Sacred Journey blog that used an iron. You know, one of those little craft ones. Then she sent me one along with a block of wax and some crayons and I was hooked. Rose and I send things back and forth to each other and there is nothing more exciting than getting a Rose box in the mail. BTW she is Altered Rose in my links. She's great. Anyway, this is a collage I did and what makes it fun is that I waxed over lace and sead beads.The saying is, 'I may look totally harmless, but inside I'm completely badass'! I love it.

Then I decided to something with an Asian feel. So I made a gel medium transperancy and mounted it to an artist board. Then I waxed the whole thing. Then I used crayon to add color.

I was really surprised at how little crayon it takes to add color.

This is a bottle I waxed. I even coated the beads and the trim at the bottom. I added a tiny bit of crayon to make it look sort of like Vaseline Glass.

So that's what I've been up to, how about you?

Peace

Spring Is Coming

For the past week we have had about 600 Robins in our yard. They are making so much noise you can't hear yourself think out there. It's wonderful because it means spring is coming.
This is a heated dish we use for the dogs water. Note the Robin poop all over the ground. We added another dish for them because they were fighting over the dogs dish. There are so many in the yard it looks like the ground is moving.

I took these pics thru the screen because I didn't want to scare them.

Today when we woke up we found 2 inches of snow. But I still think spring is coming.

Peace

AAARRRGGGHHH!!!

This is a rant post.
I LOVE going around visiting everyones blogs. Seeing all the beautiful work and gathering inspiration from all.
BUT...
There are a couple of blogs that are so full of ads and playlists and clocks and all the other interactive stuff available that it takes forever to get in. If you can get in at all. Sometimes the screen just freezes after a couple of minutes of loading.
I have stopped visiting a few because it just aggravates me so.
Sometimes I wash a sink of dishes while waiting! No lie!!
Has this happened to anyone else?
Am I the only one?
I would love to know.

Peace

A winner, some charms and a wall

Here are some charms I made for the swap in Cloth Paper Scissors. They couldn't be any bigger than an inch and a half. So I thought what better when dealing with measurements than a measuring stick? I enjoyed doing these 'cause I only had to do 5! I spent a lot of time this past week making my inspiration wall. I keep my old calendars. So I cut them apart and used pics from other places and collaged my wall.

I LOVE the color and movement. I can sit and zone out looking at it waiting for inspiration to strike. I took an old ugly bulletin board and painted the frame matallic black and thumb tacked some sale fabric I got on over the cork. I wound some ribbon on the wire hanger. I am filling it with pics of things that inspire me including work from some blogs.

Here is another view that sort of shows the branch I have hanging from my ceiling. It has fairies and witches and things friends have given me and fairy lights hanging from it. It is VERY cool at night when it's lit.

So now for the winner! DH picked number 9. That is Mar from Working Projects blog. Congratulations Mar. If you E me your street addy, I will mail your prize on thursday when I go into town.
Thank you to all who entered. I am thrilled that so many of you wanted to own a piece of my work. Please check back from time to time, I will be having more give-aways.

Peace

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