Monday, August 26, 2013

3 out

Yes, I do *all* my blogging at the end of my Sunday-Monday weekend. Mostly because that's when I make a lot of art. Gotta blog about it before I forget if I did or not. These run the gamut from dark and sedate to wild and crazy to pastel and geometric.
The dark grim girls are a gel medium transfer from a demo day. The background is a sheet of  Tim Holtz Kraft Glassine. Not entirely sure what you're supposed to do with it but I won it in a drawing and I like the color so decided to use it. The two strips of town building are from a big picture book on the old villas of Venice Italy. Bits of old book paper, a strip of semi-appropriate text.

Rhonda, you ought to recognize the background paper. This started out as a note sent to me by a friend. I added lots of blown ink cause I was still in the mood after making the tree postcards earlier in the day. The odd text is a phrase from an old book that appealed to me.

The background is from a December 1944 Popular Science magazine, one of several old magazines I mine for useful stuff. All the stamps are from a big baggie that Rhonda gifted me with. The text is from a large print book by Kate Atkinson. I bought it simply to use the large type on larger pieces but ended up reading it first. Love her writing. Couple pieces of washi tape finished it off. 

7 comments:

  1. Love these! Really interesting and varied!

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  2. These are great. I love the Victorian piece. great color and balance.

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  3. These are great. I love the Victorian piece. great color and balance.

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  4. Wow you were busy this weekend! Great! Yeah is that background that brush technique page I gave you? Glad you are enjoying the stamps!

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  5. These look really great. Reading this, I just remembered that I awoke from a dream this morning where I was making postal ATCs -- can you believe that?? In the dream I kept cutting the base pieces too small. Whatever...

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  6. Such different cards and techniques. Fun stuff! Though I'm not usually a vintagey kinda gal, that first one really appeals to me...thinking it's the strong composition.

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  7. I love that you actually used the word 'lackadaisical' and I wonder how many people actually know that word? Wonderful composition on these.

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