Reflection - April 15

And the project begins! I have finally started to make that great idea from my mind a reality, an actual, physical thing! I have to say it does not look like my minds eye had originally thought it would look, but with every modification I make, the more and more pleased I am with them. I didn't know what I was going to do with all my tissue paper but after a quick second of serious thought, I decided, just go with it, great ideas don't come to you, you make them. So after getting a square of wood and stretching canvas over that I just started. My technique: one layer of black tissue paper glued on to the canvas board with mod podge, a layer of clear wax, another layer of black tissue paper attached on with hot wax (thanks to the heat gun), another layer of clear wax, then a layer of GOLD tissue paper attached the same way, and to finish up, a layer of black (ink mixed with wax) wax. Once all of that is done, you just go to town with a scoring tool to make the entire board look like it was clawed at. Last week was my planning week, this week was my revelation week!