Mystery writer, journal keeper, fibre and paper artist
This is my first attempt to link to the Inspire Me Thursday group. This week's topic is Purple and Orange. For more about Inspire Me Thursdays, visit http://www.inspiremethursday.com/
Paper mache box, gesso base, acrylic paints, DMC embroidery thread, glass beads, paper clay embellishments. Inside lined with mulberry paper; inside
This comes from exactly 28 years ago, yesterday (1981 September 3). I was in university and had started keeping a journal a few years earlier. One day when I had a little extra time a lunch, I saw this chair. I sat on the stairs and sketched it.
There is this marvelous chair at the foot of the stairs, against the wall, in the student union. Green-black, probably vinyl. Brown wood. White ridges at the front of the seat and a small white spot where the fourth leg should be attached. Just sitting there, perfectly balanced, rather proud and solemn-looking. Of course, no one could sit on it. Something about the way it is unbalanced makes it beautiful.
The theme for this Thursday was Make a Gift. There's even a link on the Inspiration Thursday site where you can pledge to make all your gifts or buy hand-made gifts and ask others to do the same.
It's been a tough year for some of my family, so this year I made them hope chests. I started with purchased boxes, which I covered with a layer of gesso. The words were printed on tissue paper. Since I had some space left on the final sheet after I printed "Hope" as many times as I needed, I experimented with other word, like "Joy," "Trust," and the names of the children in the family.
The tissue paper was laid down with a coating of Golden medium gloss gel. Ornaments were made of air-drying paper clay and other bits of ephemera. Everything was covered with multiple layers of medium gloss gel, and bits of ribbon and trim were used to finish the edges of the box top.