Materials: Lack table
Description: I gessoed the table completely then applied torn bits of paper from magazines, ads, show tickets, bus tickets, letters, stamps, a few scraps of handmade papers I had lying around, junk mail, you name it, using a matt acrylic medium. After it was dry I applied a coat of satin varnish acrylic medium.
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~ Susan Avishai, Toronto
bellissimo!!!
ReplyDeleteLove this!
ReplyDeleteNice work! Very inspiring although I'm not sure what Gesso is...Google here we come!
ReplyDeleteExactly! Also, the link to "See more..." isn't working for me.
ReplyDeleteGoogle is your friend: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesso
ReplyDelete"Gesso (Italian:ˈdʒɛsːo "chalk," from the Latin gypsum, from the Greek γύψος) is a white paint mixture consisting of a binder mixed with chalk, gypsum, pigment, or any combination of these.[1] It is used in artwork as a preparation for any number of substrates such as wood panels, canvas and sculpture as a base for paint and other materials that are applied over it."
=> Sounds interesting!
Great colors!
ReplyDeleteThis is beautiful! I hope that the legs are glued in place though... I decoupaged a lack table several years ago and it was great, until the legs got twisted and it broke the design.
ReplyDeleteToo true, Cathy. The table fell once when I was photographing it and the legs tore the collage. But I was successful repairing it. Gluing the legs before I started would have been a good idea.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful!!
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