Bird Mountain Road

[create_destiny]

The 24hr Drive By Gallery in Chico is putting on a community participation art fundraiser. The gallery created large wall size puzzles of interlocking wooden puzzle pieces and the public was invited to pay $10 for a puzzle piece and decorate it any way they want. The pieces are due back tomorrow and will be re-assembled for a one week showing beginning Saturday, May 27 and running through June 2, 2006, on which day there will be a silent auction for the pieces.

dietcokehed and I are both participating in this show. I just finished up my piece today.

Bird Mountain Road
approx. 19" x 16"

Mixed Media: Earth, sandpaper, oil pastels, wax and dried flowers on wood

Here's a close-up detail:


Photos from Puzzle Shows from the last two years can be seen here: Clicky-Click.

Comments

amazing images

[raingirl26.livejournal.com]

oh my god (if you don't mind the expletive)!!!! How amazing and all the other words the other people who commented used. I'm amazed that it is on wood. I spend my photographing hours searching for natural things that look like this, and usually they are metal when I find them, although there is some old paint. And the one person was right, I feel like I've been on the road. I'm a photographer because I can't come up with images like this, but I'm pretty good at finding them. Maybe sometime I could scan a photo to show you - if you want.

Re: amazing images

[createdestiny.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I also love burnt and rusted stuff, peeling paint, etc. and I look for these colors too when I'm out with my camera.

I've been trying for a while to create these colors and acheive a "rusted" looking effect. I've had some orange dirt from one of my favorite mountain roads that I've been experimenting with artisically for several years.

Basically, how I did this piece was I ground up the dirt very finely and then sifted it and mixed it with some collage glue and painted it onto the wooden puzzle piece. After the dirt dried I tore some strips of sand paper and glued that down. Then I "colored" the whole piece with oil pastels, melted a favorite candle of mine and poured the wax onto the piece and spread the wax around while it was hot with a palete knife. The hot wax kind-of melted and blended the oil pastels and created a unique textured effect immediately as the wax dried. This is the first time I've ever used wax in a piece and I'm happy with the effect it created.

I'd love to see some of your photography. I'm 110% sure that anyone can come up this images like this regardless of their perceived lack of ability. I've only taken one art class in my life (basic drawing) and I sucked at it, which is why I stick to abstracts.

Re: amazing images

[raingirl26.livejournal.com]

do you know how i can post a photograph on this web site beside as an icon? perhaps i need to have a paid account?

Re: amazing images

[ygolonac.livejournal.com]

You can make a free account on Flickr, upload pictures there and link to them in your LJ posts.

http://flickr.com/

Re: amazing images

[raingirl26.livejournal.com]

THANKS! I knew about flickr, but hadn't thought about the link type thing. I'm adding photos now (though only my dinky digital camera type for now - I'll scan my "real" photos later after I see this all works).