more tins
More tins continue to pile up on the stairs to be taken up to the studio and I'm creating shrines as fast as I can!
The first one kinda got away from me. I'm gonna let it ride though because it's all about the process. Right?!? Actually it doesn't look quite so dark in the photo as it is in Real Life. But trust me it is. And very rough. My main bugbear is the 3 top bits which really felt awesome when I first attached them. But then the bits fell off when I was doing other stuff and had to be reattached and it was messy and so I tried to make that part of the overall feel and well, then it got REAL messy. Messed up and funky.
Live and Learn.
Moving on. I went C.L.E.A.N. on the
next one. Serendipity at work here. I'm a huge multitasker and was
doing some plaster casting in between waiting for herring tin things to dry, had
some leftover plaster and dumped it into one of the tins sitting on my table.
The starting place for this one. I imprinted circles into it. Then painted. I'm kinda
loving it. The "wings" I've had forever. I bought a metric buttload from Lee Valley yonks ago and I'm down to my last few. The hanging focal was a test using some
crackle product I got atop a photo wrapped with copper tape and soldered, — a
dirt simple way of creating a faux bezel.
And then back to a bit more of an aged (busy?) look. To me the sum of this one's parts totally make it a strong piece. Something about the whole eye in the triangle thing aka Eye of Providence maybe? Coincidence that I just finished reading Dan Brown's Lost Symbol (fyi. don't bother. it kinda sucked!)? We are sponges, we artists. Anyway. I like how this one turned out.
More to come... two are almost done. Andstill m ore tins on the stairs!
