Sticky Fingers
Posted on | December 6, 2009 | Comments Off on Sticky Fingers
That 96″ tall canvas is still in my office. But I had some ideas about what to do with it this week, and I’m trying out some of them on a 36″ x 24″ canvas.
I have been thinking about curlicues and curlicues make me think of quilling. I called around and found some quilling paper at the art store, but in the end, I didn’t feel like buying any. I didn’t know how much I would need, whether it would work, and I wanted to work on a bigger scale than 1/8″ wide quilling paper would allow, anyway. As an experiment, I rescued the thicker color circulars from our newspapers and painted one side of them. Once dry, I measured and cut the painted sheets into strips and spent hours curling, gluing and pinching them into different shapes. If I were better at this, I suspect my fingers would be less sticky. But what can I say.
Here is the first dry-run of a design I’m considering. More in the way of paint needs to happen on the canvas, but I’m still thinking about that, too.
