The Sound of Stromess Fused plastic, paint and stitch 23 x 23 cm |
Showing posts with label fused plastic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fused plastic. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
The Sound of Stromness and Pigeons
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Distracted by plastic
My studio is clean and I have lots coming up later this week so the only thing I could fit in (between the usual mail art distraction) was a little plastic fusing. Not long ago I found a deflated balloon on the edge of a field and pocketed it. The worn gold was the starting point for this.
I have been re-reading a couple of pastel books, looking for words for my workshop on Friday and Wolf Khan's use of 'calligraphy' was playing in my mind as I intuitively worked.
I have been re-reading a couple of pastel books, looking for words for my workshop on Friday and Wolf Khan's use of 'calligraphy' was playing in my mind as I intuitively worked.
Labels:
Calligraphy,
found baloon,
fused plastic,
pastel,
Wolf Khan
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Fused plastic response
Following on from drawing the Somerset space, I used the drawing to inform this larger (6x8") fused plastic piece, mounted onto cardboard and then sewn.
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
noticing how figurative and abstract intersect
Pastel on paper 10.5 X 7.5" |
Fused plastic 6.75 x 6.75" |
acrylic on cardboard with fused plastic stitching 6X8"
An addition to Maine Time
Fog time
thick light
presses down
Boat engines rumble
We leave footprints
across the lawn
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Fusepo story
In this house newly discovered plastic provides speculation, discovery and sometimes new ideas. We've had a few barbecues lately (the weather is amazing at the moment) and with a different range of food comes different packaging, different plastic. I also thought to use bag seams. While we've enjoyed the summer evenings , I've had even less time with my iron, my paints, my glue stick. In one stolen evening I tested a few new plastics and incorporated the paste papers I have been making.
The interplay between images and words, always there for me, came out differently here.
A day without clouds
A day without clouds in the rearview mirror.
Some after image of museum trays,
lost objects catching light through dust.
I turn the mirror slowly refracting the angle
to configure a hedge, pond repetitions,
embers burning their opaque blue.
The whole androgyny of twilight or morn
dappled in moons. And then
a bird raises its newspaper wings and sings.
Fusepo story 1
10th July, 2013
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Trashquilt portrait
The only things I brought back to England were some walnuts, a few plastic bags and some wonderful cheap shaped erasers as well as a stack of adhesive foam. You can press into the foam to create stamps and the figure in this stamp is made with that. I cut out the shape of a figure I glanced at in a magazine and decorated her with patterns. The way the stamp prints is determined by the pressure - each print varies quite a lot.
Tonight I decided to sandwich a couple of the prints in some fused plastic. This is about 4X4.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Recycled plastic landscape collage
I haven't been sending out much mail art lately. I need to get some work together for a little upcoming show and what's intersting me are the little things I make (thinking I'll send them out).
This morning I decided to do a colour study using a bit of leftover plastic as a starting point. I inteded to whip these off and send them out. I decided I would choose three colours in the plastic and mix them to make different values and hues and then sew the plastic to the surface. The background painting began as a middle value from mixing two of the dominant colours in the plastic. As I continued to paint, they seem to have been inspired by Diebenkorn and my fused plastic quilts.
The bad news is that I have been forbidden from sending these out as well.
Labels:
acrylic,
Diebenkorn,
fused plastic,
landscape,
recycled,
stitching,
VISPO
Monday, April 15, 2013
Fused plastic collage
I have decided to do a series of these, to take them beyond their mail art potential. It turns out with careful handling most plastics can be fused and incorporating paper as a layer gives me even more possibilities. Yesterday I found myself asking for a bag, even though I had a cloth bag... some of the flimsy bags produce a different kind transparency. Heavy duty bags are absolutely opaque.
Labels:
fused plastic,
Rebecca Guyver,
Rebecca. Moss Guyver
Sunday, March 24, 2013
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