This is what I accomplished in one day during the Michael de Meng Eye Hand Coordination workshop at Art & Soul in Portland.
The main box was originally a metal container for a chocolate easter bunny. I altered it with Aves apoxie and Dap, glued on some scrapbook decorative gears, painted it all white. Then I used the special rusty paint mixture that we learned to alter the entire thing.
I’m still working on what to do with the doll head. I have some filmy fabric I’d like to use and wrap the eyes — it’s sort of an all-seeing oracle image to me. The head is embedded in more apoxie, inside a round mint tin.
The translucent light stuff around the top is real snakeskin that one of the women in our class offered to share. The test tubes were things I’d brought for Shadowbox Tarot last year but didn’t use. They have little shiny brass screws, tiny rusty nails, little springs, a couple teeth that were pulled about 25 years ago and other stuff…
The hand at the bottom was part of a great Ebay find. I got a batch of hands, the little doll heads and those terrific eyes…more than I could use in one project. I altered the hand using the Aves apoxie and inserted a little eye in the palm. It’s kinda creepy. I picked up that cool compass and the pen nibs at a flea market. The wings were pulled off a thrifted metal holiday ornament.
That round plastic box at the top is just propping up the rusty nail. I’ll take another picture when I’ve made some more progress on this.
More to do on it, but I felt like I made good progress.
Posted by Coffeelatte on 2009-10-08 04:17:23
Tagged: , art and soul , demeng class , eye hand coordination , altered
