Monday, August 04, 2008

Icon Making


These are mixed media icons made with layers of lace, trims, cheesecloth, gesso, and acrylics. Lots of layers, lots of texture, and lots of fun to make. The purple icon is framed in a shadow box and this bottom one is mounted on a board painted black (much cheaper). I have been studying Russian icons and their religious meanings. I am interested, not so much in religious meaning for these humble pieces, but as focal points for contemplation and introspection.
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Bonnie said...

Really interesting & beautiful pieces.

11:16 AM

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PURLS OF WISDOM

"Color is the real substance for me, the real underlying thing which drawing and line are not."
--Sam Francis

"The great man is one who never loses his child's heart."
-- Philosopher Mencius

"We wear our attitudes in our bodies."
-- Patti Davis

Colour embodies an enormous though unexplored power which can effect the entire human body as physical organism.

Colour is a means of exercising direct influence upon the soul.
--V. Kandinsky
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way.. things I had no words for.
--Georgia O'Keeffe

Nothing is really work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
--J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Faith is like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
--E. L. Doctorow

Somebody once said that people become artists
because they have a certain kind of energy to release, and that rings true to me.
--Dale Chihuly