Industrial Arts...

A new painting and an industrial-elegant vignette...

Show of hands...how many of you like collage as much as I do?

I know you're out there...I've seen your work...and I love it.

Here's my latest piece - actually a reworked piece from a decade ago.

Do you recognize anything here?

It's canvas wrapped around wood, painted with acrylic,

with gold leaf, graphite and found objects including 

a rusty brake, a stainless machined metal piece,

an aluminium disc, an erector set piece (pierced metal) 

and a piece of rusty, crusty tin or steel. 

I like this piece resting inside the faux French frame...

I flanked it with some deconstructed books,

another faux topiary, a rusty finial, and the little bird I freed 

from a rusty cage on one side...

...a faux mercury glass lamp with a drum shade,

a forged bronze candlestick,

a vintage flower frog and an iron or bronze

whatchamacallit on the other side.

( Did you notice how many times I said faux,

rusty, iron and bronze? Hmmmm.)

It's funny how one new piece can call for 

a completely new rearrangement of

things to make a new vignette.


Everything in this vignette was either made by me
or it was found in a thrift store or at a garage sale.

One thing sticks out, though. The faux topiary.

I wrapped the stick in green floral tape.

I need some brown tape. Do they make that?

The green looks BAAAAD. 

Sorry, I hope you get the general idea.

But green floral tape was not really the

little pop of color I was intending...

Have you noticed how I always promise to

fix something and show you a better

version at a later date? Well, yes.

I hope to do that in this case as well. 

Maybe I'll do a post of

"Afters and After-Afters:

The revised, improved afters."

And you'll be the first to know. :)

Word for the Day:

Joshua 6:19
But all silver and gold, and every vessel of bronze and iron, 

are holy to the LORD; they shall go into the treasury of the LORD.”

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