Jen May 28th, 2008
Mermaid of Substance - Assemblage for Hannah Grey Design Team
So while I"ve been working on my triptych for the monthly challenge, I played around with some more products from Hannah Grey and came up with this little beauty. I didn’t have any set end vision, but simply pulled things out of the box as well as my own stash until she was finished. I hunted for quite awhile for what was going to dangle off the bottom. I tried weasel bones (from HG) and bird’s feet, glass orbs (read beads) even some doll’s legs but saw this piece of coral in my "sea" box and realized it looked exactly like a mermaid’s tail. Perfect match! I love when synchronicity happens. My favourite element?The wispy copper wire waves.
Jen April 24th, 2008
Part of the fun of being on a Design Team is getting totally cool ‘new-to-you’ stuff to make things with. My box from Hannah Grey arrived the week I returned from ArtFest and after a quick cursory look through, saw the metal fencing and knew exactly what I wanted to make with it - an homage to the amazing cemetaries of Portugal and Cuba. Other HG things in use: the wee plastic baby, some bones - judiciously cut with the Dremel - an angel image, plastic barbed wire and some full sheet sequin waste.
I used a box purchased from the Dollar Store with the intention of creating a "shrine-a-day" for the month of November. Hey! I’m nothing if not an overachiever! So whenever I get the chance to use up another box, it’s a Good Thing. I had some transparencies left over from my Michael deMeng ArtFest transparency class and with a touch of titanium white brought out some of the obvious parts - angel’s head and wings - torched the sides and put it over the box opening. In RL you can quite easily see the HG image behind.
I’m also playing around with my ‘just made’ cheapo light box. I need to make the insides a bit more seamless. And get a better light but am quite pleased with how it turned out. Because let’s face it, it’s all about how stuff looks. Am I right?!?
And a note on the S-T-R-E-T-C-H challenges … they’ll be moving to a monthly format during May through September, picking up to once a week during the Fall & Winter. But we don’t even want to THINK about that now, do we?! The next challenge will be posted on May 1. In the meantime, please feel free to continue adding to Challenge #12.
