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Published: 2013-02-22 16:30:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 1385; Favourites: 38; Downloads: 0
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Paper collage with dΓ©collage on 5 x 7 canvas board using pages from Look Magazine 1957 and Sears Catalog 1930. Blended painterly effects are from excavating the various paper layers by hand.---
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There's definitely a bit of the dark here. Thanks!
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Reading the largest printed letters situated at the height of his right eyebrow reduced some suspense..
This is the first time I see that city's name ( near his chin) in mirror image
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this song came to mind: dead can dance- Opium and Paris [link]
brilliant as always Laura...simply brilliant
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Thank you. Glad you enjoyed!
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Many thanks!
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Thank you.
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Thank you. Guns make me crazy.
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but the final feel of it is not soft.
very violent as i see it.
but this is my favorite one
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Defnitely violence. The political me coming out again.... Thanks for the words, and the enjoyment.
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and did you notice Manon's journal? [link]
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I did indeed! What a thrill...the way she combined the pieces....swooning here!
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yes! i love the slow peeling of the paper. i usually do it when it is not quite dry so the blending is even smoother but sometimes i am annoyed by the white, unprinted fibres that shine through ... this one is exceptionally nice. bonnet off again!
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Sometimes I like the contrast between emerging image and paper to be sharp (fuzz), but sometimes the paper fiber gets in the way. And when that's the case, I dip my finger in some gel (I use soft gel because it seems to be more transparent) and rub. It works remarkably well to remove/conceal the leftover paper. Glad you like this one...thanks!
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ah, good advice. i am working on the very old "twinkle, sparkle" book at the moment and will try it with gel. thatnks.
we should start something new over at the daughters', don't you think?
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I am so embarrased that I have neglected everything over here. Need to learn to be a little kinder to myself. I was thinking I was in the mood for an art book, though...so this sounds great to me.
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i have one nearly completely prepped here. will do something in it and send on to you, okay? but it has to be another slow-rolling one ...
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That would be fabulous. And slow-rolling is always good.
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i am sometimes wondering how it must feel to live in a country where people can own guns ... i'm not sure it would make me feel safer, to be honest
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It doesn't make me feel safer. Quite the contrary. The guy having a hissy fit in the supermarket because of a slow line could have a gun...and he could choose to use it.
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Thanks, Richard...for lack of a better term, I call the blendy thing that I'm doing "painting with paper." Sometimes I just don't want those sharp cuts anymore. I guess I'm getting soft....
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Well as my mother-in-law said once, "We're always going through phases!"
I like both sharp cuts and this ragged look... I'm hard in a soft way or vice-versa
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I'm claiming soft-in-a-hard way. You can be hard-in-a-soft way. Phases are fun, keeps the spring in the step, especially since signs of spring round here are nil.
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Okay that sounds good to me 
I hear you about signs of spring. A facebook friend in North Carolina mentioned spring yesterday - LΓΊcia said she was feeling it the other day - and I'm listening to the cold wind blow, looking at the (thin but still) snowscape, and feeling winter.
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Winter Winter Winter.
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