On Saturday I had two art friends (Paula Hagar & Kristie LaRose) over for an art play day. We worked on personal art maps, munched on cheese & crackers & fruit, had lots of art talk. All in all, a really fun day. I am very interested in pursuing the map theme further and would like to make a series of maps showing art direction, where I've been, where I still want to go, etc.
For this piece I wanted a textured "relief" looking map of my roots to the meandering paths where life has led me. (Click on image for a detailed close up.)
After I finished the piece I use wax to bind it all. I used lots of reds unconsciously & later realized it was probably the prompt of the name "Colorado" which is the Spanish for 'red'.
I used a small montage of personal photos for the place of my birth: a picture of me and three of my sisters with my grandmother, my grandfather's eye and a painting of my grandmother at 13.
Hope everyone has a great art week!
4 comments:
art dates are so much fun! your map turned out so well too!
Thanks for your kind remarks about my journal pages and the transfers. Why don't you email me and let me know what kind of transfers you want to do and I will be happy to share! cat
Textured Relief indeed! This is such a wonderful creation. Love the layers and texture here!!
Looks like a fab day together. Interesting concept, an art map. Look forward to seeing more and the map is wonderful Marie!
I really don't know how I got here...but I did and I LOVE these personal maps...it is just magical that I am here after I had a session with my art journaling students that was all about personal geographies...That's a great blog Marie..I will add you to my blogrol so it'll be easy to visit you again..Orly
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