I've been piddling around my shop, accomplishing virtually nothing, sort of waiting for inspiration to swing by and say hello.
I have a friend who is a real artist. I just play at being an artist. In any case, she has befriended me. I'm so lucky.
She comes over, looks at my work, and then just spews out praise and encouragement. Its just what I need. Coming from a real artist...well it means a lot to me.
We've been toying with the idea of a shared show, mixed media, somewhere. In the process of discussing what pieces we could pull together, we started talking about not only pulling our individual works together, but actually creating a piece in a collaborative effort.
She has a daughter who does photography, she works in mixed media, and I do mosaic. We spent some time brainstorming, and came up with the picture below. Her daughter snapped the photograph in a borrowed photography studio. We spent 4 hours trying to get the right image. From there, we spent another 4 hours setting it up the way we want it.
Our plan is 5 18in. x 56in. panels, panel 1 is a mixed media interpretation, panels 2,3, and 5 are the photograph, and panel 4 will be a mosaic interpretation. We're working through the mounting issues. They are yet to be resolved. Colors are another issue, but it seems we'll work around the limited palate of mosaic.
I think that this will be a lot of fun, and I'll learn a lot by working with my friend. I'll keep you all up to date.
2 comments:
can't wait to see how this turns out! i reckon it'll look awesome! and have such an original edge to it =o)
Well, truth is I'm waiting for some extra cash to purchase the stuff to get started.
And..time has been a serious issue.
Working, working, working.
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