Second Chances

I don't know if the difference will be apparent here but I used the IF piece to play with the gel medium I bought to seal some of my collage work...

Of note: I should have paid more attention to the comments on warping  caused by the mix of medium and water. It produced a thin, shiny coat but was not exactly what I wanted. So after that first coat dried and then spent some time under my over-sized art books, I did another thicker coating of the medium with no additive. Resulting in the above image...

Note the damage because I have no patience and the collage stuck to every damn thing....

I've gotten a bit better but only a bit, as you will see when I post the piece that started my investigation into sealing and glossiness.

Evil Laughter Everywhere

I've official finished two more pieces which will be winging their way toward their final location. Of course since these people may actually read this blog, there is a delay in full feature posts on these pieces at this point.

(This is unlike Walk? which was sent to someone who hadn't read the blog, and in fact still has not read the blog even though they did get the piece. It hurts a little inside. Sniff.)


More to the point, while one piece has been posted but the recipient doesn't know they are getting anything and the piece got a nice glossy finish (as well as picking up some damage from my inept gluing). As for the other, the recipient doesn't know what they are getting....hence my evil laughter. (Okay so it's totally in my head but still, it follows me everywhere and when I think about what I'm mailing it increases in volume.)

I beginning to wonder if I get more joy from sending things out to random unknowing targets then actually being a real mailartists and participating in calls...

(Also, I might, just might have told my friend with the night sky piece that it wasn't important they read the blog....but there's no proof I said this as I deleted that text message and I doubt they saved it. Time for more evil laughter.)

Muwhahahahahahaha.....

Light Bulb

I had started a post earlier today then I did some work on a new piece and it was while I was working that I had a revelation (which naturally caused me to actually say out loud: Light Bulb).

(Yes, I stole that line from Despicable Me. I am genetically part thief, the other half is a total hardline, this is the law, kind of person. I don't know how I escaped having multiple personalities when I have such contradictory characteristics. Shrug.)

I was working on these tiny tiny flowers trying to cut them out as precise as possible and I realized that at a certain point, I was done. I no longer had it in me to sit and work without thinking of the exact knife as a tool for vengence.

So I worked with other stuff I had already cut out. I'm not unhappy with the newly finished piece (and once again I have a sendee in mind) but. Yes there is a but here. (And if my humor was  a little more juvenile.. .oh heck, it is. I said butt...heheh.) It didn't come out as planned, again more simple than the intricate masterpiece I was planning.

Thus revealing two flaws I try so hard to work around....

I lack patience. I do not have it in me to cut out these itty bitty little flowers to create my vision. I settle. I could spin this as creative problem solving, but it really is plain old laziness. Sloth. (How often do things get ruled out simply because they are beyond the amount of time and effort we wish to give for the results?)

My second flaw became apparent as  I worked tirelessly to fight against it this evening. (Oh, so brave. Yes I am speaking of me...seriously, almost). I don't know when to stop. I will keep adding unnecessary details, extra little do-hickeys unless I have a good reason...(like the promised foot massage I am looking forward to tonight.) Which is how I ended up with the following piece:

(I'm pretty sure that yellow spot is completely unnecessary and that both the gate and words (Live your dream or some such nonsense) in the background could have been saved for another day.)

IF is mostly a combination of various images I collected from brochures and magazines with some ribbon and marker to give it some kick. Had you read my previous posts you would be prepared for the orangeness that is IF. I think I ended up wielding both the glue stick and turbo tacky glue to create this sucker.

Alas it has no sendee (yes I know sendee is not a real word) and it still needs to be sealed some how (and I wish it to be glossy) but it will eventually find a home or a place in someone else trash bin.