Hello World!

I have decided to join the ever-expanding world of altered artists who blog. I’m not sure if I’ll end up having anything fascinating enough to say, but if I don’t start, I’ll never know. I know the main idea of a blog is to upload pieces of art as I complete them (preferably with intermittent pictures along the way). But those who know me realize it’s a miracle if I manage to get a pic of the finished piece uploaded, much less interim photos. As such, please bare with me when all you can see is the finished product.

I’m including two pieces I finished in the past couple of weeks.

This one is only the second large collage I’ve done. It’s a canvas board. The background started out crackle, but the crackles didn’t come through as much as I had hoped, so I ended up throwing a few other layers on there. There is some glazing, distressing, and some PearlEx on there. Unfortunately, the true dimensional nature of the background just can’t come through in the scan; in person, it really looks wonderful. Oh, and the pic of Apollo is a packing tape transfer. That one took forever. [Note to self: That's probably why you're supposed to use contact paper for large images.]

This one is also a canvas board collage, but it’s a smaller piece. The background incorporates some of the same techniques as the Apollo piece, but did not start with a pseudo crackle first, so it’s not as thick. There is no transfer on this one. I did try to stamp the butterflies with pearlex (worked fine with Apollo, but that must have been because of his “diety”) and they didn’t show, so I ended up overstamping the left one. I think the effect it lends (a sort of halo) turns out very nicely though. I sure hope the recipient (my friend Cyndi–hi Cyndi) likes it in person.