Thursday, March 6, 2008

Pari


Today’s theme at Theme Thursday is…

This week’s theme is “Paris”! Use collage images, rubber stamps, paints, fancy paper , embellishments or any other art supply to make your creation in a Paris theme. Make an ATC, 4 x 4, card, inchie, altered tag, inchie, skinny or whatever you fancy! Add your art to your blog, then post a direct link under the comments! Please include a link to Theme Thursday on your blog! Have fun and make art

I decided to go all out…really push my collage abilities. I spent a few minutes thinking of everything Paris that I could, I came up with of course the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dam, the French Revolution and Haute Couture. Amazingly I had a way to represent every single one of these aspects.

To start I painted the canvas brick red and then stamped French script all over. Using collage images from Paula’s Kit Club I painted the dress with sparkling H2O’s and then cut it out, along with the multitude of heads, and legs I have on the piece. I glued all those elements on and then using a tan acrylic paint I stippled/smeared the ruff lines.

The church window is from Stampington & Co. I stamped, colored and then printed that out on transparency. The Eiffel tower, from Stamp Land Chicago, is stamped in balck behind the transparency which I attached using brass brads.

“Haute Couture” is stamped on fabric that I hand stitched onto the canvas. “Off with her Head” is stamped on scrap paper and then torn and attached. The letters are from Stampington & Co. The vintage shoe is black embossed across the bottom and finaly “Pari” is gold embossed.

With all that said and done I covered the entire piece with Egyptian Gold Sparkeling H2O…so the entire piece shimmers.

I hope you enjoy…as always I am open to all types of evaluation.
Caro

10 comments:

Femmy said...

Love it, you really found a way to present all those elements!! love the "rolling" heads and feet that try to fit in the shoes.!!

Kathy said...

Oh I love it...

K said...

beautiful!

Contessa Kris said...

Thanks so much for visiting my blog! I LOVE you Paris piece! Especially the legs at the bottom. So unique!

Sandy said...

Wow what a stunning collage. Such beautiful. Love it.

Wiggles Towers said...

Amazing piece of art work, wiggles xx

Anonymous said...

Oh, this is very thoughtful, give many thinks about life of Paris.

CraftyC said...

Fab, alot of detail and planning by the looks of it!!
Clairexx

Wendy said...

Your cards are so unique, I love visiting your site and seeing your new creations. Great Job!

Laura Kirste Campbell said...

Lots of action, just like Paris!
Creatively Yours, Laura