Here is my brick wall I painted onto an opened-out cardboard box. This was used in my Lost and found exhibition, as a backdrop for my creations. I have just answered a FreeCycle query about 'brick wall paper', where I gave them the fllowing instructions and thought it would be good to post it here also. So thanks Fred.
"Hi Fred, I do not have brick paper, but can tell you how I did my own brick wall...... I took a car sponge and ripped it in half length-wise. This gave me a striated rough side, with which I used as a printing tool. I painted a background in mortar colour onto some corrugated cardboard and let it dry. I then mixed some paint into my preferred brick colour and started printing my brick wall. I did bricks in a few shades. I should have kept a more careful eye on the spacing, as my mortar became thicker the further up my wall I went. I put some depth to it by using just the edge of the sponge and dipping it in light paint and printing along the top and left edge of each brick. I followed the same idea only with dark paint along the bottom and right edge."
This was great fun. Another funny thing was that when I had finished printing the bricks a gentleman customer from 'The Room at the Top' came by and told me, "Of course, you know you've got too much mortar there.' He is a retired builder and knows a dodgy wall when he sees one.
Dark Adornments - - - - - Currently being creative with doodling. Other things - crafting with textiles and costume jewellery. Dabbling in drawing and painting with pastels, watercolour, acrylics and glassware.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
New Studio 2012
In December 2012 I said, "I hope I never arrive, cause that'll mean I have to move on". Well I have arrived and yes I've moved on, but only down stairs to the main studio area. I have a bigger space and more windows, it's lovely. I am doing my level 3 art course at the moment, so a lot of other stuff is on hold. I will get to it....... In time......
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