One more November ATC

I found the last November ATC.  This is it. No more for this month, I promise. 

Wolves

Crow Trio

Crow Trio

This piece which is in a signature that I am working on evolved over the week.  This signature and one that I completed in Orly Avineri's class during the summer will be bound with an RR signature in January to create a three signature journal. 

I started with paint and crackle paint.  Then I went to some shiny transparent cloth that came in a box of supplies ordered online.  I tried out a technique using an oiler boiler that Jane Davies demonstrated on her blog.  I stenciled gesso "flowers" and then painted them.  I hated the painted flowers so I glazed the whole background and solved the "hate" problem.  Finally I added the crows.  These crows obviously have a mission.  I love the way they are either bent forward heading toward something or watching something very intensely.

The Mixed Media Artist - Step-By-Step-Old and New Friends Meet

Today on Seth Apter's blog the fourteen gallery artists from section three of The Mixed-Media Artist, Seth's latest book, are being introduced.  I have three pieces in this book and I thought it would be fun to show you the steps that I took to create Old and New Friends Meet, the piece that I created for the book.  The prompt for Friends was Imaginary Worlds.  I am so very pleased to have been asked to be included in Seth's book.  If you have not seen it yet, it is a treat!  Thanks Seth for asking me to contribute.

 

 

 



I used matte medium to adhere pieces of newspaper to the substrate in the first step.  Then I brayered a layer of gesso over the substrate.

step 1

In step 2, I added paint using rainbow colors.  As you can see texture is now coming through from step 1.

step 2

Since I was honoring four great 20th century artists I wanted to give a flavor of their work in my piece.  I create gel skins transfers using gloss gel medium.

 

step 3

After four gloss gel medium coats and once the skin is dry, I submerged the skin in water to wet the paper fibers.

step 4

 In step 5 the rubbing off of the paper fibers begins.

step 5

Step 6 is a completed gel skin for the background.  I completed several different gel skins to represent four artists' work: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Keith Haring and Andy Warhol.

step 6

 In step 7, I adhered the gel skins to the painted background.

step 7

 Another layer of gesso was added to the work in step 8.

step 8



I added a glaze over the gessoed layer and then added the decapitated bodies of Rauschenberg, Johns, Haring, and Warhol.

 

step 9

Because Donatello, Caravaggio, Michelangelo and da Vinci are using time travel to visit the 20th century artists their heads were added to the bodies of the other artists.  Finally, I sprayed slide covers with a black gloss and attached the covers to the artists.

step 10

More November ATC scans from Terry

Thanks Terry for sending me scans of my November 2013 ATCs.  I think I have one more to find and then they are captured in blog history! :-)

 

Pigs

Cow

More November ATCs

Thanks to my friend Brian in the gentlemen's ATC group and his scanner I can show you more November ATCs.

November 2013 ATC

 

Welcome to November!  For this month I made a series of ATCs that included animals....birds, wolves, pigs, cows and the like.  I was way ahead of myself and had sealed the cards to be mailed to members of my gentlemen's group before I remembered I had not scanned them.  So unfortunately this is the only one that will surface on this blog.  Maybe I can get Terry and Brian to scan them for me once they arrive at their homes.

 



Bullseye

Bullseye

This was an experiment and I rather like the result.  I collaged it digitally in Photoshop....the house, the car, the men and the stamp.  Then I did a horizontal adjustment (flip) so that I could do an inkjet transfer on 140 watercolor paper.  I added the bullseye after the transfer.  I printed the stamp, bug, dove, and the guys again, collaging each.  I added the tree and the washi tape postage mark.  That is it.  I am thinking of entering it in the NW Collage Society postcard competition this month.  Maybe I might do more first.  Time will tell.