HILLBILLY DAIKU | Just trying to leave something behind.
orepass | Woodworking for Sanity
Description: Thoughts and decisions as I create my work. Journey with me through the fascinating world of woodworking.
The title of this painting is Tapestry and it’s painted by Diane Eugster . This piece is oil on panel measuring 18″ x 24″. To compliment her work I wanted to carve a very low relief, Art Nouveau motif with the goal of creating a subtle pattern around the frame that would isolate the figure into her own world. I’ll leave it up to you to decide whether or not I accomplished that goal.
Those of you who follow my blog know that I like to share what I’ve learned and discovered in that process. Two main reasons for that, one is that as the years advance we all tend to forget how we did things so for me the blog is like a diary that I keep on line for my own use which reminds me how I did what I did — seven plus decades has shown me that I need this!! The other reason is that when I first began this journey of creating picture frames about 20 years ago finding out the techniques others used a
I’m not very artistic so drawing a design and then being able to replicate it exactly the same on the four corners of a frame isn’t something that I’m able to do. Even if I had the ability to create my own design, reproducing that same image on each corner would be a challenge. Thanks to the ease of the internet I’m able to search for and copy what I need. Once I find a suitable design I put it into my Pages program and resize it to whatever the frame requires. Using spray adhesive the design is attached to
HILLBILLY DAIKU | Just trying to leave something behind.
orepass | Woodworking for Sanity