Tuesday 14 June 2011

Latest Work - boxes and canvas art.





Large 5x4x3 box and small box 4x3x2 with original vintage interiors. Using books, newspapers and magazines dating from 1845-1912. Outsides are found objects from necklaces and belts covered with tinfoil then painted with acrylic and top coat of bitumen. varnished with gloss varnish. Legs are wooden beads.


14x8 deep edge canvases texture is polyfiller with various childrens stamps used to make swirls and marks. Onion net pushed into polyfiller then smoothed to show net. Acrylic paint including bronze, gold and metalic blue. Bitumen makes the dark shades. The net goes over the edges. Gloss varnish. The colour shifts on these depending on the light.

6x6 deep edge canvas, acrylic paint, dayglow pink and gold. Over polyfiller and used a stencil for the swans. Bitumen used again and gloss varnish.

2 comments:

  1. Very creative, both the boxes are canvas's. You are such a busy bee.Funny how you can transfer all your emotions into art form.....x

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  2. Hi Linda ya that's where mine go!!!

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Your comments are all read and appreciated. Hope you will forgive me if I miss commenting on your comment, I will be busy doing art :-) x Joan