In Silence

So I finished the "In Silence" piece that I showed you in my last Labor Day post, & I definitly took a different route in completing the text. Instead of using the inkjet decal material, I used electric tape & hand stamped the text (using white oil paint for the ink) onto the tape. I pared down the text a little so it'd all fit on the piece of wood & I really like the result.

& Labor Day art extravaganza!! Part 3

The last project I worked on is a smaller yet! I used a piece of wood from a crate left over from another project, cut it down to 5" x 5" & used the same wax pouring technique I used on the first two pieces. Once the first layer of wax was down, I put a playing card (found on a walk w/ the dogs through my neighborhood park) & some text (inkjet decal material) onto the wax & poured another thin layer. Once again the finished pic to come once I have it all cleaned up & done! Whew! Love productive weekends :)

Labor Day art extravaganza!! Part 2

The next project I worked on was a little more in depth-past the experimentation phase. I used a sewn pattern figure, similar to what I've used in the past but I used the image side of the pattern instead of the solid brown side. The canvas is 8"w x 10"h, a much smaller scale, but I used the same metal layering & wax pouring technique that I used on the first canvas. You can see in the following images that I used painters tape, instead of cardboard, to keep the wax contained while I poured it. You can see the glare of the hot wax in the images as well as the white opaque nature it takes on once it dries. The next step was to apply some text. I used a inkjet decal media, which you can print on your desktop printer, apply a thin coat of solution to seal off the ink, & then use water to peel the decal from the paper backing. I then applied the decal to the surface of the wax, cut out the text that covered the figure, & poured another thin layer of wax over the text. Now all I need to do is clean up the edges! Again, I'll post a finished pic once it's hanging up :)

Labor Day art extravaganza!! Part 1

Since the weather was so rainy over the Labor Day weekend it gave me a chance to work on several different pieces using some small crimped metal strips I found at a thrift store the other day. The first project I worked on was a large 24"w x 60"h canvas, where I layered the pieces in a cross hatch pattern & then poured white wax over the entire surface. As you can see from the pics I edged out the canvas with cardboard before I poured the wax so the wax would stay on the canvas/metal instead of dripping off the sides. This piece was more of an excercise to see how the different materials would work together, and for me to experiement more with wax & its properties. The final result looks pretty great! I'll follow up w/ a pic of the whole piece once I find a spot to hang it on my walls :)