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July 01, 2009
The Flight of the Lepidoptera
My latest mixed media piece. Don't ask me where the title came from, it kind of sprouted with the butterfly and map images. (In case you can't tell, there are two endpages from a very old World Book Encyclopedia near the bottom there, very very old world maps. Though not Olde Worlde, just old.)
It's roughly 15" x 11½", painted on 140lb Strathmore coldpress watercolor paper. I plan to mount it on some kind of cream-colored backing before framing it. Though that may have to wait, as Dave informed me a couple of days ago that it is exactly the approach he wants to take for his next production.
Specifically, what he said was, "What's with the butterflies in the boxes?"
" I don't know, I told him. "The ideas just sort of happened together. They're sort of like specimen cases."
"Because, you know," he said. "That's Quake."
So I asked him if he wanted to keep it to show his designers, and he said yes. Which means it won't be going to Chicago with me to hang above the fireplace in the new apartment. At least not right away.
I was playing with gel medium and PearlEx pigments and it just sort of happened. I used both matte and gloss gel medium for the various layers, but I did finally finish it with a layer--well, two, I forgot to include the X before I put down the first layer--of Golden gloss polymer medium.
Anyway, that's what I've been doing with myself, along with packing, acting and working on some dirty journal pages in my theatre notebook. (Note to self: the pages in that book really weren't up to the beating you've given them, though they seem to handle spraypaint just fine. Maybe not quite so much gel medium in the future.)
Posted by sally at July 1, 2009 04:49 PM
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