Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice
January 20, 2012
Finally, the tree has been integrated. The painting painted. The canvas delivered. I am left with a void in my living room and unspeakable relief.
So this copper tree painting…probably trickier than I thought. It was a wonderful challenge: an exercise in multimedia integration. I sat on my stool, staring at the painting upside-down, right-side up, tweaking this, changing that, and finally decided that I should probably just say “uncle.”
I have never had an art project end any other way.
And I can’t wait to tackle another.
On a different note, remember the illustration mentioned a few entries ago? I’m almost done! I’ve decided to use the second panel to display an excerpt from Little Big, although I haven’t decided which yet.
Just so's ya know, this pic was taken from Amazon.com.
So, as informally displayed:
The fridge gallery.
This is mainly for preview. It's a very light artwork, but it's good that way. Once the text is in panel two, I will properly photograph and upload both.
Here is the Kate Towers dress I referenced:
All the glory be to Kate Towers for the photo and actual dress."The End" for now, I suppose.
Really like the copper tree painting. Kinda eerie.
How did you do that? It’s 3D, right? I saw you making the copper tree in another blog. . . It almost looks like a bit of a shadow box.
Yep! I made the tree from copper, then stuck it on the canvas. I textured the canvas in acrylic mediums, then painted over with oil. Sometimes it worked and sometimes it really really didn’t. Heheh.
Yep! I made the tree from copper, then stuck it on the canvas. I textured the canvas in acrylic mediums, then painted over with oil. Sometimes it worked and sometimes it really really didn’t. Heheh.