From Rebekah:
It’s been a month and my deadline officially ends in about five hours, so I guess it is my turn to post. A recent method that I have started doing and love the look of is decoupage. Until this piece I always used colored paper or tissue paper, but this time I wanted to try fabric. The green and pink areas of the piece are scraps of paper that have been cut and decoupaged on. The pink pieces I simply let lay flat on the canvas, the green I created and allowed wrinkles to form to give more texture. After allowing the fabric pieces to dry I used acrylic paints to paint the tree and blue sky. The tree contains three different shades of brown. The sky in comprised of a repeated pattern of blue oval shapes.The effect of combining the prints of the fabric and the different textures of the decoupaged fabric and paint creates, at least to me, a pleasing effect.
For this piece I enjoyed the idea of taking three canvases and putting them together to create a large image. The canvases do not exactly line up, but instead look as if they were extracted from a larger painting. In response to Rachel’s first post, I tried to make a connection between her piece and mine. The first thing I thought of when seeing her print was the colors around you during autumn. It was this concept of nature that I carried through to my piece as well as using the smaller shapes (her’s sequins, mine the sky).I have to admit though that lately I have been stuck completely on painted or drawing trees. I love the flowing forms and movement in trees and also the strength.
Deadline March 12, 2010
