Category: Painting
Paper installations by Luise Valdes
Cardboard, tape and paint. Chilean artist Luise Valdes is a master with these tools! From re-building his own apartment (including electricity!), a crashed airplane, a crashed car to a whole market stall full of fruit (which was actually for sale).
Owl box
Repost 30 april 2010
While I'm quite busy with several assignments I manage to make some time for special projects for myself too! In this case it's making a tiny painting on a small box. For my birthday I got a gift voucher from dear friends, it was for a tiny shop with all kinds of craft supplies. There I found wonderful boxes made of some kind of dark paper and bought one. I had it standing on my desk for quite some time because I wasn't quite sure what I wanted to do with it. But then I had it! I decided to paint an owl on it. I made an illustration of a cool one some time ago (even if I say so myself) and decided to try to get it on. The drawing was quite big (A4 size) and the box was only 10x10cm. So I downsized the whole thing and got it on the box. I still have this old fashioned way of doing so; I have the drawing I want on a piece of paper, then I make the back of the paper grey with soft pencil. I put it on the box and then I retrace the lines with a fineline hard pencil so that the pencil from the back will be pushed onto the box!
Read more 10 February 2011 15:08, tags: Cat, Painting