ANOTHER ALTERED ANGEL

Well here is the final altered Angel.
The Queen

Not the best of pictures, as it is a scan. Don't forget to click on the picture to enlarge.

This was made using a buckle sent to me by my friend Sheila. As soon as i received the buckle i could see the Altered Angel in my mind.

The 'wings' are cut out from cereal packets, the halo is from a pastry cutter, there is a hair slide placed at the bottom, and buttons, a washer and some beads.

The canvas has be coloured using distressed ink pads.

The text inside the buckle is from a vintage book about Royal palaces in England, hence her name.

These are the final altered angels for the exhibition.

Struggling with the painting, but nearly finished one. Not sure whether to go with another painting or more altered art. I havn't much time, as i will have to deliver the goods on Wednesday, so think i will be cutting it fine by doing anything else.

I have to make sure that the canvases have clean edges, and varnished, make sure the altered art is TRULY glued down, and then wrap and pack, and off to my beloved Chesterfield.

BTW, the altered photo frame and the final painting will be posted as soon as it's bright enough and the wind has stopped so that i can take photos.

ALTERED ART

Phew, well i really didn't mean to be this long away from my blog, but the pressure of the upcoming exhibition finally got to me.

I have at least 7 projects on the go, and not one of them entirely finished. Waiting for embellishments to arrive etc, has put me all behind, but when they all eventually turn up, it won't take me long to finish them (fingers crossed).

Here is a sneak preview of one of the projects.

It's an altered photo frame, with 8 compartments in all. I have removed the glass, and am making a stand for it using 4 childrens building blocks.

So far this is my favourite compartment. The china dolly i bought on ebay over a year ago, and have been dying to use her, i just hope she likes her new home.

my bottles of alcohol inks arrived this morning, so am off to have a play with them. I'm making Angels out of kitchen utensils, and wanted the inks desperately to alter them with.

So hopefully it won't be toooooo long before i'm posting again.

PS i STILL havn't done any more paintings, naughty naughty girl. LOL

Mona Lisa going to Zettiology

Yesterday, I called in at the Gallery in Chesterfield, with bated breath, to see if my paintings would be accepted. They were, but I'm still not sure if they were liked or not. lol.
The thing is, he has asked me to do 12 paintings altogether, along with some altered art(Which i've no idea what i'm going to do )
I did show him Teesha Moore's website, and asked would it be alright to go a little bit weirder with my work, and he agreed.
Soooooo, I've dug out an 'old' painting of mine. Mona Lisa in the Pink. This was for an exhibition at a gallery in Ware, Herts, in aid of Breast Cancer, in which all the paintings were to be done in Pin. These were to be sold off for£100, the proceeds going to the Breast Cancer appeal.
Unfortunately. my painting was not sold, and so it has been laying in my garage.
Whilst browsing the web, looking for inspiration, i came across someone elses good old Mona, which had been altered. so my little miss pink mona, is undergoing major surgery lol, zetti style.

After calling in at the gallery, i called into 2 craft shops, and before meeting OH, i called into a new art gallery/shop in Chesterfield. There in the window display was a beautiful rusty wire tree, with small easter eggs displayed on it.
So without further ado, I bought it. Started chatting to the lady owner, (actually the mother of the owner), and she asked about my work, and so i showed her the photos of the Zetti Fairys/ She was impressed, and said they may get intouch with me about me hanging work in their gallery.

Trouble is, i'm not sure if i want to go back to the Fine Art side of my work, I feel much more happier, and safer in the craft world. We'll have to see how it goes, but i'm not going to go out of my way pursuing Galleries/exhibiting.

One of the reasons for surfing the net, has been because i have been unable to find a great site that i visited just a short while ago. For the life of me i do not know why i didn't bookmark it, and so have found it impossible to find the site again.

This lady's site, featured altered art/assemblage and she made wall art, using kitchenalia, ie sieves, cutlery, pudding basins etc. and making them into fairies. and i sooooo wanted to have a go at it for the gallery. Still, i'll just have to do it my own way, which is for the best anyways.


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