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| I stopped by a garage sale by my house and came upon these gems. They were all wrapped up in there original plastic but had seen better days. I wound up having to throw away the actual art and the wood they were mounted on as they were moldy. |
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| But I could save the beautiful metal frames from Italy. I cleaned them up and added some white highlights. |
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| Then I tinted them with layers of transparent washes of Golden acrylics. |
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| I traced the shape of the frame on paper made for acrylic paint and added a few layers of paint and tissue papers. |
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| Now what to add next? I went through my old transparencies from teaching and cut this one up. |
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| and layered those on top of the collages. |
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| The glass needed attention next, I cleaned and scraped off the paper that was stuck to them and added details with pen and paint. |
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| Now the fun of mixing and matching the collages with the frames and glass. |
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| A more tedious next step was cutting out new backing for all of them. |
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| I glued the cardboard in with liquid nails and glued paper over that with Elmers and then signed each one. |
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| Last, I added small embellishments and dots and flourishes a la Michael DeMeng. |
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| Before and After |
What do you think? I sold one the next day and still have 6 available. Thanks for looking.
