Last fall, my friend Toni and I helped each other to make Etsy shops. My Etsy shop can be found at https://www.etsy.com/shop/HanaMeleArt.
I’m very excited to have this shop as it is one more way to have my work available to the public. Bluebirds of Happiness are the latest creations I’ve been working on at the Farmers Market and what doesn’t sell at the market will be available at my Etsy shop.
As the weather gets cooler, I find my body wants to stay inside to work, while my mind continues to think of all the many things to work on in our new garden/yard/park area. It’s been a very full summer and at times, hard to believe fall is definitely here. But today’s snowflakes grazing my face quickly reminds me winter will soon be here.
On the cooler days when I stayed indoors, I found the desire to create art pieces with three dimensional objects, in a two dimensional format. Spurned on by my commitment to have three pieces completed for an Artworks and Friends show at the Bonifas Fine Art Center in Escanaba, I decided these would be wonderful, if they turned out.
I shopped around at the local thrift stores and dug into various “supply” boxes to find many of the treasures to compose my pieces. The hunt for the right items carried many surprises as one item tied in so lovely with another. One of the biggest delights occurred after placing the Victoria picture in the heart shaped frame and finding the sheet music titled, “Vittoria Mio Core!” – Victorious, My Heart! The feather, mask, gold chain and rhinestones just fit with Marie, as did the small old lock front. That reminded me of her time spent in prison before her execution. “Looking Up” is a reminder to look ahead at what may occur in a life. For Princess Katherine of France, she later married Henry V and became queen.
In addition to all my treasures, I found a delightful site called The Graphics Fairy where Karen has a multitude of many images to be used! Here is a link to her site: http://graphicsfairy.blogspot.com/
On that site, I found three wonderful images of two queens (Victoria and Marie) and one Princess Katherine, to create my compositions.
In addition to many things gold and shiny, and sometimes not so shiny, I included parts of sheet music, feathers, rhinestones and ribbons.
Here are the completed assemblages:
“Looking Up” features Princess Katherine
“Marie”
and “Victoria”
These three pieces are currently hanging at the Bonifas Fine Art Center in Escanaba until Dec. 18th. If you get a chance, stop by and also see their Northern Exposure show!
