Sunday, June 5, 2011

While We're Waiting for more 'Spreading the Love'

Figured while I was at it, posting all this
months 'Spreading the Love'
Shout Outs:)
I'd go through some of my past projects
to post a few 'oldies but goodies'.
Above is a picture of an encaustic acrylic
canvas, collaged, inked, and hand coloured
with chalks. 
The child in the Vintage Photograph that
I used in this painting, (canvas was a 8 x 8 inch),
is my mother at age 3 in 1930.
(She was a 'cheeky' kid, and would be
so mad at me for putting this out globally,
but I love this picture of her:)

After looking at this awhile, I decided to
play with it a bit further.
I took a photograph of the finished painting,
then printed it on card stock instead of
photo paper. Then went through the process
of re-colouring it all with chalks, and inks,
and even added some glitter in this copy.
I put it in a 2 x 2 inch glass frame, then
added some charms that seemed 
appropriate. In my mum's case, she
was English born, and always wanted a 
cup of tea. So the teapot charm, and the
great 'tea pebble' 
(a gift from Kristin Hubick of
Retro Cafe Art!)
Seemed just right on the chain with mum's little
portrait.
I wear this quite often to think of my mum,
Renay, who passed away 3 years ago.

Since then, I've done other 'Altered Portraits'
This one is of my Father-In- Law, Stan
and made this for one of my husband's
sisters for a keepsake for her.
I used the same background paper for
both the frame and the 'dog tag', and
I used the same picture of 'Dixie' the
pet frog of mine you've seen in some
of my other projects, to make the point
of being a 'real boy':)

Since these were made, I've now started a 
whole collection of these necklaces
and it all started with a canvas
I did of my mum:)
Funny how you can get ideas from all
sorts of inspiring places:)

Enjoy!