Currently on view at the office of my husband Fred.
Here is a smaller size collage than I
use to work on, such as my awarded collage
the Piano©
I think that the key shapes go perfectly with
the curves of the letters and post stamps.
I used different kind of paper (with KEYS, SHEET MUSIC & POST STAMPS as subject), a Dutch newspaper with text about money, ("My money" and "Who is paying?") acrylic paint in earth and gold tones, and fragments of GOLD LEAF.
To enhance richness to this collage I used GOLD LEAF, an elegant accent decoration that you can use on almost anything.
Gold leaf -an extremely thin (and
expensive!) foil made of gold- has
been
used for thousands of years in the decorative
technique of gilding.
Something to which gold leaf has been applied
may be described as gilt
or gilded.
Byzantine and Renaissance both included
the
art of gold leaf.
-------------Here's how it works
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It is hard to work with!
Each leaf is bound into a small book
from which I lifted it carefully with a
long gilder's knife and laid on freezer
paper.
The leaves will stick to anything
they touch, making it very tricky to
transfer them.
I picked the leaves up with a broad brush -
called a
gilder's tip- and
carefully positioned them on the
prepared panel.
I allowed them to overlap slightly. (I
like the grid like pattern that is
created.)
The gold, though small is important,
and gives it the extra oomph!
Therefore the title is d'ORO©,
which means GOLD!
Medium: acrylic paint & gold
leaf, Dutch newspaper, paper, white
gesso.
Dimensions: 12"x24" (30x60
cm) on Gallery wrapped canvas, sides
painted/no frame.
________________________________________ _
Copyright Olga
van Dijk
2006©
Unauthorized copying or use of images is
prohibited.
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Slobodan Kalupcic 07 Mar 2008
Great work ............ Boban.Tamara Blecker 06 Feb 2008
Nice collage! I like your use of space and color.Tatyana Shurtz 09 Sep 2007
OMG.. How come I didn't know your art before? This is awesome! I wish I could do collages..Jantina Tuthill 14 Aug 2007
Ik vind deze toch een van de mooisten . Misschien omdat het een stukje nederland is.John Fish 22 Jul 2007
This is wonderful. I like the texture and earth tone colors. The key shapes go perfectly with the curves of the letters.