multimedia on the lake

Another wonderful weekend at the lake making art.

I had gotten some wonderful Angelheart Flax pieces at our local Salvation Army to work on  a beige dress and a 2 sided jacket green linen on one side and striped on the other.
Used two previously stamped pieces to alter them.

Then my greatest challenge was to make my own tallit. I used my mermaid stamp for one side and Gail's double turtle on the other side. The tallis bag has another turtle piece and a small shore bird. Striped blue on the outside and madras print on the inside. Finished with a self-made tag with a monkey and my name. The tzitzits and the neck piece, atarah

were saved from a ritual burial at synagogue and repurposed.

Snow People of Hector

The large snow woman was an ugly $1 doll from the Bargain Bin in Montour Falls. Working in Gail Walker's Studio I deconstructed the jacket and scarf- added a ruffle,  4 Jewish stars free embroidered on the sewing machine to make the scarf into a tallit. I made a flower rosette for the cap-the stamens were re-purposed from the beads that had been her smile. She was missing her nose hence the $1 price tag- so Gail whittled one for me and colored and covered it in orange glitter. Her jacket button is an old military button with an eagle and an anchor.

The three snowmen are made of Crayola paper clay seed beads for eyes and mouth. They sport brass military buttons with eagles. The large one we made a striped stocking hat with a pipe cleaner center so the stocking cap can be positioned. Base was a re-purposed plaque we removed the wire hanger. The bottom of the snowman has heavy glitter and it was added to the base as well. 

The last snowman although the tiniest took the most time to make. He is in a handmade wired cage the base has book print paper and black glitter around the outside. The body is paper clay with pipe cleaner arms and legs, the scarf is wrapping string. His hat is hand made with paper cone fastened with a jewish bard, then glittered. The small tree was mod-podged and glittered. It is amazing the smaller one took as much time as making two of the big snowman.