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Thursday, January 24, 2008

New Canvas Collage - Vineyard Goddess Dreams

I have been working on this canvas since last fall!! It is a 12x12 stretched canvas. I used distress inks as a base coat. I stamped grape leaves onto the background using acrylic paint. I sealed the piece with PYMII.
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I then used the peeled paint technique with a very heavy coat of gree acrylic paint and revealed the leaves underneath. I washed over the piece with a very diluted coat of acrylic paint in a "bright" orangy color. I also highlighted the veins in the leaves with a Sakura gel pen (clear).
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The woman image is from Twisted Papers. I modified her coloring on the computer, printed her out, sealed with PYMII, cut her out and glued her onto mat board.
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I love this woman image and went through about 10 different compositions before I settled on this final version. She is distressed with gesso, washed over with the orange acrylic glaze and then edged with white acrylic paint.
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The embellishments are the top of wine capsules. I distressed them with gesso, washed over them w/ the same "orangy" acrylic glaze and then highlighted again with white acrylic paint.
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The wording around the piece is my own. I wrote it using a Sailor White Pen. (available at Outside the Margins!)
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I'm so HAPPY to be finished with this piece!! :)
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Close up of wine capsule embellishment:

Close up of texture detail:

21 comments:

  1. Wow Susan this piece is wonderful and so etheral it speaks to me on many levels! Are you clever to have used the wine capsules, very cool! Beautiful work!

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  2. Oh my word, this has left me breathless it is absolutely to die for. The time and effort you have put into it is so evident, you should stand up and take a bow - I applaud you...

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  3. Amazing work. The details and the texture are impeccable. Congrats!
    --Christy

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  4. Congratulations on continuing to work on this project. It is gorgeous, a treasured art piece.

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  5. Amazing! You are sumthin' else GF! So? Did you really drink all that wine to get that many thingies! Way to clever...I just love it........sweet!

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  6. Wow! wow! wow! I love this susan! It might have taken ages, but good heavens it was worth it... amazing piece of art. I'm a bit of a goddess-buff myself!! ;)

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  7. Susan - love this piece! The texture is wonderful! Marva

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  8. Susan, it's just gorgeous. Love all the layers and texture to the paint, and the goddess is beautiful.

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  9. This is just awsome!!! Susan. I love it.

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  10. Absolutley breath-taking! This is truly one of the most beautiful canvases I've seen.

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  11. wow wonderful peace of Art.
    Love this colors.

    Wow

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  12. Sitting mouth-opened. Your Canvas is fantastic, I love the colours.

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  13. What a wonderful piece of art! The lady face, the colours. Really great!

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  14. VERY beautiful piece. As an altered artist myself, I can appreciate the layers, and time, spent on this wonderful work of art. Great job!
    Linda Cain

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  15. This is just outstanding. I like the way you repeated the face. The wine toppers are great. I have been saving them, and now I know what I'm going to do with them. Drink up!

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  16. I just realized you cut the face image in two, rather than repeat. It's lovely.

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  17. This is magnificent! I admire you for not giving up on it because it was so worth it. When I don't get something right away...it's gone forever. You have "stick-to-it-ive-ness" -- a good trait! Love all your Michael DeMeng work!
    Pat

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  18. Beautiful collage. I used the detail on my blog today with a link back to you. Please let me know if you mind and I will remove it.

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  19. Two thumbs up on using the wine tops, what a great idea :)

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