distressing a frame
On Friday I will be taking my entries for the Collage, Assemblage, and Construction Art exhibition to Lowell, MI. In the meantime, I need to do something to the frame for my collage.
This is the original frame that came with the canvas that I altered. Well, actually, it is the frame for the other painting that I bought on the same day...they are pretty much the same except this is silver and blue and the other is gold and brown...both have cream linen on the inner frame.
I started by thinking I was going to paint cobalt teal squares all around the linen...but that soon got out of hand and I made it all one solid color, then I dry brushed the thinnest silver part.
The collage looked pretty good in the newly painted frame but the paint was a little bit too stark for me. I felt like it was fighting for attention with the collage.
You know how much I love my alcohol inks in the spray bottles. I pulled out the denim and the slate. I spritzed the denim on first and then put the sprayer into the teensy bottle of slate and spritzed that on as well.
This is being done in the hallway because I am using the light from the skylight in the bathroom to try and see some actual color. (I laid it out on the back of another repurposed
collage-in-progress.
Well...we will have to see if the alcohol inks dry or if they disturb the ancient finish on the frame.
There were a few smeary parts in a few places, but they may work out okay.
another detail of another area
And you know what happens when I use my beloved alcohol inks, don't you?
I end up wearing more of them than what gets on the project.
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