I loved creating these ...and I love the result!
These are the digital copies - the ones mailed for the exchange are of fabric.
Printing the images on silk fabric for inkjet, and adhering them and the lace with sheet adhesive worked very well!
Can't wait to see what the mail brings for me!
Meet Geraldine
( not the transvestite one from Some Like it Hot - before that )!
A 3 part image to be mixed-and-matched in a swap called Exquisite Corpse.
She was inspired from a photo of an early stage and screen actress named Geraldine Farrar; done with cp/fine line marker and metallic pen on Bristol.
Her pose and attitude reminded me of a Mucha model, so I followed his lead in the decorative detail, though substituting silver for his lush gold.
Thought I"d show what I've been up to, Art-wise, besides digital -work.
I've been in a series of exchanges over at the ATCS FOR ALL Web-site over the past few months; shown above are some of them!
I quite like the set-up of the ATCS FOR ALL trading site... you join a swap - numerous varied themes are always on the go - and usually have a time limit of 6 weeks to 2 months to complete either 3 0r 6 pieces of art to swap for...3 for 3 or 6 for 6.
The host master/mistress chooses what they consider like for like effort &/or ability wise.. after having been in a fair amount of swaps now I can say that I think generally, the host decisions as to how to swap OUT - whom to whom - are fair, more than not.....You send in to them, and they swap all received cards out to the other traders.
The prime advantage for me is because I am only making a limited amount of cards within a discrete time span - I usually opt for 3 for 3 -I feel I personally end up actually doing BETTER WORK...it keeps my initial interest fresh and alive!
I truly believe that attitude works both ways; affecting other participants as well!
TIME TO LEAVE was created for the occasion of the first year anniversary The Three Muses Challenge site.
The sailing ship is actually the BLUENOSE, a yacht of considerable racing fame for Canada...if you've ever seen our dime, it's on it......the girl a shepherdess from a last Century British Victorian painter of pastoral scenes.
My husband commented it must be a ship of crazy seamen going full tilt from such a shallow harbor.....but I reminded him looks can be deceptive; especially if you're starting to experience a sea-change, of sorts , as I think this lass longs for!
TITLE: Reader Rock Gardens
SWAP: Vintage Spring/ ATC'S FOR ALL
I researched Historic Houses in the Calgary area from at least 85 years ago to make the sources Vintage. Calgary was only declared a city -of 4000 souls- in 1884; so most Vintage homes are of the 1885-1925 era.
Couldn't help throwing in a famous cowboy's homesteader's cabin about 150 km from Calgary, though!
I also tried to match the era of the house with flora and fauna that would likely have either naturally grown or been planted in the area at the time.
THE HOW:
I designed the cards digitally in layers; then printed the underlying house layers on adhesive cotton that went over a base of a green floral print which I had distressed.
A layer of waxed paper went under a transparency printed with a floral overlays.
Constructing a card that way is quite new to me; so I've learned a bit from the experience..know better what to do next time around!
AS OF APRIL 30, 2010 , THERE IS STILL SNOW ON THE GROUND HERE...WE WERE HIT BY A SLEET STORM THE DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY, AND SNOW YESTERDAY MORNING!
THAT'S CALGARY!
Quaking Aspen Forest in Early Spring / main imagery from land near Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, others from the US and Canadian Forest Services, and in the Public Domain / Digital work of 19 layers
Originally created as one of my cards for the Magical Air Elements swap at ATC's For All
I have been busy creating Art- digital and otherwise- for some of the themed swaps courtesy of the members of the ATC's for All( AFA ) site as of late.....
I have a GALLERY over there featuring cards I created for some of the swaps I have been involved in.
I will be uploading a few examples to post here, in the near future!
The one posted above, Winter Tree is a photo transfer onto film, adhered to paper I made out of watercolour paper scraps and white cabbage!
It is ATC-sized, 1 in a series of 4 made for the TREES Swap I was in. The other 3 can be seen in my Gallery on the site.
