More Stratification

 Above- The papers that I received from paper trading- and the alternative process that I used before I stratified them.

Seed packet series- In progress ....

Scanogram that I made last semester, with oil glazing. The yellow ballerina is my mother in 1957 when she was 8 in her dance class, this was a old sepia photo that i colorized and restored. I photographed a checker board for the backdrop.   I photoshopped in the bottom half of the picture with an image that i made of chairs in the ECU auditorium. I took pictures of my bathroom curtains to make the stage curtains. Everything else were magazine clippings that I scanned. This image is intriguing to me because of my mothers presence in a whimsical world, it almost brought a new era to an old image with the modern surroundings. I am still in process of oil glazing.

More oil glazing on some seed packets I printed from internet

To the far right was an image my teacher gave me. To the far left is one of the traded surfaces. The middle images are the combined result. 

A funny cyanotype of MEE!

In the studio adding to the papers I selected from the trade off.

Working with salt, chalk pastels, phone books and more

YAh!

Seed Packets- Still in progress

Photoshopped print out of my combined surfaces-In progress

20 papers

I found a lot of old alternative process prints that were either underexposed or overexposed, but the paper was relatively nice.  I created a mixture of water and acrylic paint, and soaked the papers in it.  As I moved through the process, I added salt, food coloring, oatmeal chunks, and alcohol.  After letting the papers dry, I would begin to add more layers to them.  This could be through the addition of more paint, or by tearing or sanding layers that had already been added.

 

Recent Mixed Media Work

I am in a mixed media drawing class. Our first assignment was to pick an object and make around 5 sketches of that object. It needed to be something that we could hold and that was personal to us. I am currently working on several different papers. I chose seed packets as an object mainly because of their surface.  I wanted to glue them down in a grid and manipulate the surface using matte medium, sandpaper, and acrylic paint.  This image below is one of my first attempts.  My concept was the personification of plants. Seed packets seemed like the best idea because they are flat and easy to manipulate. They were also personal for me because every year I plant seed packets where ever I happen to live.  My boyfriend is a big influence in my work so the male imagery is him. I scanned seed packets, blew them up and re glued them to different surfaces. I also used tin foil, old candy wrappers, and scrunched up paper towels.