Back To The Art At Hand.....

After a break for life and all the other distractions, this is where I am with the previous Art Redux piece. I've made clay, pulled images and culled down to some that have been cut out, added gesso with a highly sophisticated tool (my finger!) and wiped most of it off so I would have it only in the marks made by gel and brush. And I found two images with a face, and the one of the Virgin is the one I plan to use. I also did some very light rubber stamping on the background.
You see, as I looked and examined, I discovered that the reason I had those three images shoved so far to the sides was I had just received a delicious shipment of papers from Manto Fev and I soooooo wanted the text in them to show up. I wanted the collage to be about the background, and when I went to put in the foreground, I was lost.
So it was a big jump to start adding (even though it is just laid on at this point) and then whiting out and stamping. Because those luscious foreign alphabets would be obscured. That was the issue. The piece had sat long enough that I knew what I was doing was going at it backwards, and I had to forget it and deal with a lush, intricate foreground. Then whatever shows through, shows through. (whew!!!)
It's like in life, when you can't see the big picture for focusing on a couple of small details. You rehash the same information over and over and over and the same answer results.
Once I got a bead on what the *problem* was, the other issues pretty well straightened themselves out.
Yes, I need more contrast. No, I don't know if the halo stays. Yes, there is something completely incongruous about the combination of images. No, yellow orange is NOT my favorite color. No, the close up is not even CLOSE to the real color, but I couldn't move it for better lighting. Click the upper photo and you should see what it really looks like.
But something wonderful is in the works, and I am excited!

And there is a title in the works too.....either "Madonna of the Flowers (or Garden)" or "Madonna of the Moths".

Or maybe I will change that again too. ;-)

This is when art gets very exciting--when it is all this great gumbo of possibility and you want to dive in for hours and not re-emerge until it's done!

But I have to take DH for a rental car to go visit his mom, and then there's the yard........and it may wait. I think Art trumps Yard.

Have a wonderful week---a big welcome to my newer followers and above all else, have a creative and beautiful day!

I bid you, as always.....

Pax.