The Fox & the Crow

Artistic Swap: The Bird or The Egg? An ACEO painting.

I participate regularly in artistic swaps. This one was my contribution on the swap called: The bird or the egg. Which one came first?

My answer is, that none of them did. Love came first, so I painted a large tree - full moon starry night - lovebirds.

Acrylic paint, Swarovski crystals

 It was painted on a very small canvas: 9 cm X 6 cm (3,5" X 2,5")

Let´s do an experiment part 2

 http://solannsworld.blogspot.dk/2013/06/lets-do-experiement-together-part-1.html

It took a little longen than I expected to share more photos of the process. You know, sometimes life gets in our way, when we try to dedicate our lives to our creativety :-)

In the first post, I talked about how to make a wooden icon, something like this one:

This icon is made by the very talented artist June Uriagereka, and I just love the way she has framed this little painting by adding dried fern leafes to the frame, making a beautiful pattern. 

Here are some more photos of my accomplishments: 

I trimmed the corners with a sharp knife, and sanding the edges 

Then I drew where I wanted the frame to be. 

Then I added "treemass". This is a medium that can be purchased here in Denmark and also in Germany under the name "holzmache". It is a wonderful medium for modelling things that should look like carved tree, and for artdolls and puppets. Here are some examples of dolls I made with this medium: 

Treemass is made of tree shavings, rye, chalk and ammonium, and after added water, it becomes a fantastic clay, which can be modelled into anything you can imagine. I think it is something similar to "woodclay". You can google that if you want more information. I havn´t been able to find any information about the treemass in english. 

I wasn´t sure if I was totally satisfyed with my icons, so I had my husband help me with sawing some wood plates in a shape that I liked. This is the result:

Now I must go for a walk and find some fern leaves to dry ;-) And while they dry, I will paint my frames with gesso. 

See you tomorrow!

Let´s do an experiement together part 1

It feels like I am spamming you tonight, but I just wanted to share this experiment.

I would like to make an icon, something like this:

https://img0.etsystatic.com/009/0/5621704/il_570xN.459417904_6ycf.jpg

I have no idea how to make this, and the beautiful leaf pattern, but I will try and see what happens!

First an 18 x 12 cm mdf 

Then lots of wood glue 

I cut some good quality canvas and glued it on the mdf board

Press it hard onto another board and use glue cramps

Exess glue can be wiped away after. 

Now I have a canvas glued stady on the board! The press and the gluecramps prevent airbubbles. Nice and easy, right? 

Tomorrow I´ll make the wooden frame, and then the leafpattern ;-) See you there!