collage vase of flowers

I was inspired by Caroline Reid's collaged vase of flowers and have sarted to make a series of them. This is number one. It is cut up paper on bristol board that has been painted with acrylic paint. Under the vase is various handmade papers.

ice queen

The Ice Queen is finished. She has a silver head wrap that drapes down her back and is tied with silver fibers. She also has a collar of faux fur. Now she is ready for submission into the Death Of Winter show.

book made from the painted blue jean legs

I used some of the painted denim from the former post as a cover for this journal. It measures 3.5x4.5 when closed. When I am painting I have an extra piece of paper to my right that I use to wipe off my brushes before I wash them. There are two signatures in this book and they are all made up of the "wipe the brush off" papers. Most of them are watercolor paper but a few are rosin paper and portfolio paper. They are all odd different sizes which makes the book rather fun. The back side of the denim was stamped with one of my hand carved stamps. A scrap piece of the denim was used as a latch to hold the book closed and there is a magnetic closure on it. A circle cut out of the denim is glued over the back side of the magnet on the front.

painted denim

For quite some time now I have been using the top part of the blue jeans to make purses so now I have this pils of legs sitting around. So I cut them into fronts and backs and gessoed them. After the gesso dried they felt like canvas. So I went to work on them with acrylic paint, crayons, & Jacquard Tee Juice pens. Now that they are dry they are very stiff and I think will make really good book covers, wallets, or just about anything that canvas would be used for. Fun!!

town

This measures 4 x 6. It is a piece of watercolor paper that I had on my desk that I was using to wipe the excess paint off of my brushes. I used some watery black across the top to make the drips and then painted in the buildings between teh drips. Jerry says it looks like you are looking out a streaky window at the city.

ice queen - in process

She stands 14 inches tall and is made out of muslin that was stuffed with poly stuffing and weighted on the bottom with beans and then painted with gesso. The vines and leaves were hand drawn with a zig pen. I am still working on her. Next will come a head wrap out of the silver cloth she is laying on that will trail down her back and sparkly mica chips on her shoulder area. When she is finished I am going to submit her for consideration to a show - The Death of Winter. When I heard about the theme for the show I thought about what that meant to me......Spring brings about the death of winter. So she has the vines twirling around her representing the coming of spring and the death of winter. On her upper torso she will still be in winter tho. I will post more pictures as she progresses.

flower triptych

This measures10 x 14 and is a hand carved rubber stamp stamped on acrylic painted paper and mounted on black matt board. I think that I will put two holes in the upper corners to put fibers through to make a hanger.