White on White with the MOTHER

Who is the MOTHER??  Well Mother Earth of course... 

This week on Simon Monday challenge blog the challenge is to use WHITE...  You can use it in any way the you choose... but I love white on white... some of my favorite cards are white on white...  love the confectionery type of card...  with lots of laces and multi layers of it all... and then all of a sudden on the last section of the card... colored FLOWERS... love it... 

Anyway... if you are interested there should be a few on my blog someplace... as I sure sell a lot of the kits to make these... 

But back to this piece that I just finished... I wanted Mother Earth's spirit to be as real as possible... so I gathered up all kinds of things and played... now mind you... I only have a few hours... as our green beans are popping... and 30 quarts are waiting to be canned  NOW...  we do love them in the winter... so it is a pleasure to do them in the summer months...  they are so very delicious too... 

Okay.. I know you want to see the picture... enough already with all the words...

 

Embrace the MOTHER

is in chit chat at the bottom of the frame... all the details as we go along here...  but that is the official name of this piece... 

 

I took many pictures of the face and draping... different ways so you could see as much as possible... 

 

 

 

She really is smiling, and has a very sweet face... just as the Mother does...  a very serene one...  but you will see many views and they all sort of look different... 

 

I started off with a face that I had made at least 5 years ago... using air drying clay and a mold I made at least 10 of them... I found them the other day when sorting thru stuff...  and thought I should use one of these...???  so I did...

 

I glued it down onto a piece of card stock and started to drape tissue paper around the face... this is what happened... of course I had a jar of Gesso handy.. and that is how it all got to be so wonderful around the face... I love it...  and I know I will use this technique again and again... (hey I have at least 9 more faces...  )  When I pulled them out of the mold each one was really different too... so I picked out the one I loved the best... 

 

 

 

a little bit more black in the picture... just to show you the depth of her face and drapping... 

 

she really is smiling at you... saying how much she LOVES YOU... 

 

 

A lot darker, but you can again see the depth and also all the imperfections...  but I still love her... and she almost looks like she has painted eyes... which she doesn't... she is ALL WHITE... 

 

You know these kinds of frames... from the $1.00 stores... well this one I think I again have about 3 of them...  ????  for what... ART and playing with... love them... so I gesso it a long time ago too... and never used it... but today.. .I put some of TIM's Tissue on it... OM Goodness... I love it...  really fun too..  I don't want to hide it though... 

 

Well she just fits in there so perfectly... and I added some of these fun little flowers that I made... you know the kind... the ones that you use to buy in the dime store in the late 40's...  oh my... that long ago???  anyway... I made a few hundred of them the other day... and some were white... with white stamen...  You can see a cute story about these on the post I did on the  29th of June...  I love these little flowers as much as I do all the big ones I make... 

 

Here is a side view... well sort of ... and the flowers look like a lace blouse...  I love her...  she is really so pretty... 

 

 

 

Just another view... 

 

have you ever crackled a glass bottle... well I did... the directions are in the Compendium of Curiosities book three by Tim Holtz... I love this...  and I gathered up some Fairy dust and put it into the bottle...  it is all white...  with the exception of the cork top...  didn't want to color that...

 

Again ... so you can see the completed picture... 

 

I used my Tim Holtz butterfly die and cute three butterflies from clearly art plastic sheets by Wendy Vecchi , and covered it with Tim's frosted film... and then used some white alcohol ink to add some 'color' to it... there are three butterflies, one on top of the other to show flight and freedom... 

 

Using the best flower die on the market... Tim's Tattered Floral die, I cut some Muslin and also some tissue flowers... and added some stamen to the tissue ones... the muslin flower and leaves are really fun to play with... will get more into these for a quilt square really soon...  I have to get my quilt done this year... it is to cover up my French doors in my studio... and the squares are 22 inches square and each one is painted and created differently with all kinds of color themes...  love it... totally FREE in all ways...  nothing set in stone... 

 

I added this really pretty white glass disc... it looks like a large marble has been flattened... ??? dont' know what it is... or where it came from... but a dragonfly has decided to rest on it now...  along with a few of these flowers in a Antique Linen...  they are all around the place...  look.. you might see them... 

 

 

 

Since I had fairy dust... I needed to have a fairy... so I cut the flower fairy out that is called white clover... this series of fairies is one of my very favorites.. LOVE THEM ALL... 

 

 

 

 

 

Mother Earth Energy... 

You can see the flowers a little bit easier here... each one has two flowers and a stamen... simple and cute... do you remember them... they came in a little bunch and each flower was a different color.. .I loved them... 

Embrace the Mother...

Be kind...

love her in all ways... 

 

Hope you have enjoyed this and thanks so very much for stopping by for a visit...  Please don't forget to go to the Simon Monday blog and check out all the other work there... there are some really magnificent pieces there...  really dynamic... 

 

Thanks again... have a great evening and day...

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

so here she is in all her glory...