The sunflowers are cut from soda cans, and nailed on a 3-foot-high piece of scrap wood. The leaves and vines are made from credit card junk-mail advertisements that I smeared with green acrylic paint, let dry, and die-cut into shapes. (My way of letting the credit-card companies finance my work: they give me free paper.) The vase, arch, and red background are hand painted. I found the beautiful vintage children's illustrations at various websites, which I will credit as soon as I get the right computer. (I work on 3 different computers, and I really need to remedy that!)
Some detail...
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| Boys will be boys... |
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| Yes, that little climbing boy has a *knife* in his belt! My mom warning system went off like crazy. |
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| "Those butterflies were speaking to me!" |
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| The centers are recycled tealight holders. | | | | |
I'm going to call it done
for now. This is the first time I've ever worked on a surface this
large, so I finally understand how visual artists can work on a project for so long, and never consider it done. I've spent two weeks on this project, and loved *almost* every minute of it. ;)
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