Crusade nr 38 - Grab a tissue

Things got out of hand around here and I am behind with everything, not only the postings to the blog. At least, I will make the deadline for the crusade.

I had more trouble with this than I thought. Painting the tissue paper was fun, but finishing the journal spread was a whole different story. Here is the painted paper:

I used spray paint, stencils, stamps, craft paints on pattern paper, phone book pages, white and colored  tissue paper.

The first spread made using these papers:

I used a piece of rusted metal, craft wire, beads, rusted beer caps and hardware pieces, transparencies, a piece of broken mirror glued under Monalisa. I used the tissue paper for the hair and the clothes of the human figure, and for the heart border on the right page. It's got a somewhat creepy feel to it, but I did not plan it. I never do - whatever happens, happens ...

I also made another spread because I liked the black and white silhouettes I spraypainted and I did not want to cut the paper. So here it is:

 The words read: "Every day is a show" and "Love at first sight, desire, temptation, scandal and curlers". I posted smaller pictures; if I enlarge them, they get truncated. Another "to do" on the already long list of stuff I have to do ...someday.

Collage portrait

Black-and-white type with white paint on mat board. I did not have the time to do the color one yet.

Reincarnations...

I used the paintsticks to repair some of my old portraits that I did not particularly like or that were anatomically wrong, such as this and the first one from here (not the Sleeping Beauty!).

Shiva paintsticks, image transfers etc.

Back in week three of Misty's workshop, I got to use different mediums. I do not have Adirondack inks, they seem to be hard to find in Canada and most online shops in the US do not ship in Canada. The first attempt at using Shiva paintsticks - and I did not have the right colors:

I updated my palette with colors better suited to this purpose and this is the second attempt:

The water soluble pastels - I used an older  background on canvas board.

 

The winter that wasn't

It is official now: this was the warmest winter on record! The snow is gone and the ducks are already on the prond. We had a few beautiful warm sunny days. But some things don't seeem to change.Today it rained and it was cold as it is always the case for St. Paddy's parade. As for myself, I am trying to shake the winter off...slowly.