HERE I am, posting my art journal page I have arranged with one of the pieces from the guerrilla valentine left around town before Valentine's Day. (See below for more information on this.)I will go first so those of you who are shy may try and do something similar with the pages from your packet. I gave away all my colorful string, so that did not make it on to my page.
I am working in an old book on Beethoven. It is really a wonderful tome and I hate to ruin it, but actually I want to think I'm not ruining it, but just turning it to another purpose.
Artistic recycling! Yeah, that's it!
So here I began painting the page over with white gesso and green acrylic paint - going every which way.
Then I put down a piece of painted newspaper (it's on the left) with glue and I glued down the picture of Sainte Therese with matte gel medium.
Next I gave her a sort of a collar with one of the pages of Beethoven's music. Holes are punched in it to give it the look of lace. (Those eyes! Aren't they piercing? I was going to use the other side, but when I saw the eyes I had to add them as part of the rendezvous.
Now the word "rendezvous" taken from a photocopy. You have that too, if you have one of the guerrilla valentine packets. Now what? I asked myself and just puttered on. Working with glue and a paintbrush is fun after a day at the computer.
I used an Exacto
knife and cut out a stencil of a bird and then blotted on paint in the stencil. I came up with some birds for Sainte Therese, to sing sweetly in her ear.Finally I ripped some strips of rose-colored paper from a magazine, with some musical notes on them. The word "rendezvous" written out in stabilo pencil and a little glitter, just for good measure was last.
It's no work by a Picasso or anything, but it is very therapeutic. Exactly what I needed tonight.
NOW let's see what you can do. If you found one of these valentines, please let me know. If you don't want to comment, go to my profile on the right, click and you'll find a place to e-mail me. It's safe and might just be fun! - femminismo
