Staying in the lines, following the rules... not me. I am pretty sure I was born without that function. Today was an interesting AEDM. I realized I had no canvas, had nothing. Thanks to Mother Henna and her idea of gesso-ing cardboard, I suddenly had a ton of canvas. After I completed several sheets of cardboard, I was itching to do something, anything artsy. I started digging through my art stuff and found all these "crafty" projects that were given to the kids as christmas gifts years ago. They were just sitting there. So I grabbed them and shuffled through. An engraving kit peaked my interest, so I sat down and started "following the rules." That lasted about two minutes.... heart took over and suddenly I had a mess, a bright, beautiful mess. Next step was to paint over the entire piece with paper paint....oh I love paper paint. Spattering with silver acrylic was next.
One big jumbled, beautiful mess and I love it.
5 comments:
I love it too!
Great energy here. Looks like you played on the canvas. What fun! Thanks for sharing your process.
YAH for gesso'd cardboard!!!! I looooove the feeling and movement of this pieces, C! Feels like dancing.... xoxoxoxoox
thanks so much.. I did play and had so much fun doing this.
LOL Kara...love gesso'd cardboard...
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