Another Class Project

[anne_d]

My California healing icon :

Front


front with the window open


back


Museum board, blue cardstock, gold crinkly handmade paper, printed images and assorted charms, mostly gunked down with acrylic gel medium.

I used various official and unofficial symbols of California - the face is off the state seal, with oranges taken from a fruit crate label; there are poppies, sequoias, a desert tortoise, a mission bell, a mission off another fruit crate label, the official song (I love the grizzly bear hugging the state), the California dogface butterfly (I'm pleased with that - I laminated two images and shaped them so it's 3-D), the state colors (blue and gold), a swallow because I've always thought of them as hopeful birds and we do get them here, wooden hand charms, and a fortune cookie fortune ("Luck will be yours when you least expect it") cut down into a word balloon.

The fruit crate images, including the hand on the back, are from an old sheet of Cost Plus wrapping paper. The poppies (hard to see, they're on the window) are a photo sticker from a batch bought at some craft fair years ago. The rest are mostly off the internets, thank you Google.

I rubberstamped the arm pieces with a star pattern in gold ink; it needed a little something extra.

And I really need to get some decent studio lighting, when we win the lottery and inherit vast sums of money...

Comments

[usedtobeljs]

That's really wonderful. :-)

Thank you for sharing it! [hugs]

[anne_d]

Thank you!

[fotada.livejournal.com]

I like the way you arranged and combined the images! The coloring is especially nice.

[anne_d]

Thank you!