Close ups of WORDS

Last week for Paint Party Friday I posted a mixed media piece

called WORDS. 

Thanks so much for all your sweet comments.

Click

http://inkspillersattic.blogspot.com/2011/09/words-inchies-and-art.html#links

to see the finished piece.

WORDS was made with all 52 of my inchie art pieces

for a project I had been involved in at

Every Inchie Monday.

Clilck

http://everyinchiemonday.blogspot.com/

if you want to find out more about this project.

I had many comments and emails,

some of you asking for more close up photos,

I assume of all the inchie art.

You can click on any photo on my blog

to enlarge it,

but here are some larger detail shots for you.

Remember you can even click on these to enlarge them even more.

It didn't take that long to make each inchie,

or put together this piece.

Some of you ask me about that.

I don't ever keep track of how long

something takes me to do.

I just have fun with it.

I had to do something with 52 inchies.

It ended up taking about 2 hours to create.

Once I figure it out in my head,

then it goes together pretty fast.

Savor the Day!

Yvonne

Words, inchies, and art

Do you ever 'get on a roll'

when it comes to art?

Well, since the beginning of the year

 I have been making 'inchie' art...

one per week inspired by

 a different prompt word each time.

I got so focused on making them this week,

that I finished all of them for the year.

From the beginning I wanted to

create one art piece using all of the inchies.

So below is what I did.

I call it

WORDS.

The quote in the piece is by

Alfred Lord Tennyson

and it says...

"Words, like nature,

half reveal and half conceal

the soul within."

I used a canvas board, acrylic paint,

watercolor pencils, gesso,

and all of the inchie art squares.

The collage is paper from old dictionaries,

garden books, music pages and greeting cards.

I used a stencil to make the background design

then freehanded some more designs here and there.

Gel medium and tacky glue worked great to

attach everything down well.

On top of it all I sprayed

Krylon acrylic varnish.

Now I just have to frame it.
It measures 16 in. by 24 in.

Savor the Day!

Yvonne