 I made this with my favorite Citra-Solv paper and some real dragonfly wings that I found while walking in the woods last summer. Two wings were just lying on the path. I have no idea what happened to the other two. The wings are now encased in acrylic medium, so they should remain protected forever.
You may be wondering why this is a swarm? It is a swarm of memories. Sometmes I find I'm overtaken by them. Are memories real or not real? They only exist in our heads. It's a facinating question.
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 Last week I managed to get my hands on some washi tape; Japanese masking tape. It 's marvelous stuff! It comes in many colours and patterns and is translucent. I stuck to solid colours to begin with, even though there are some lovely patterns available. I've been experimenting with it by making some little gift tags. I can tell I'm going to have to get some more because I always seem to want a colour that I don't have. I've discovered that you can't draw on it with charcoal pencil. Other than that, it's fairly straight forward fun and quite addictive.   The word for Illustration Friday this week is "layer", and this was just an invitation for me to play with my sweater paper again. This sweater, which I scanned into my computer, is full of layers! After staring at it for a while, it looked like a landscape with water and shore and trees. Actually, if I stare at anything long enough it starts to look like a landscape.
I've made this into a little ACEO. So if you collect them, it's in my shop. |
 
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