Layering Images: Anne Marie

The bride grew up in Hawaii, and the groom, in Colorado; hence the aspen and palm trees. This image came to me during their wedding weekend last year, and for their one-year anniversary I wanted to combine it with one of my favorite Rumi love poems. Here's how a preliminary sketch in 2012 became this one-year anniversary present in 2013... Special shout-out to the frame maker Kathleen of El Cerrito, for her one-of-a-kind gilded treasures. Thanks!

It all started when I drew this last year, on the way to their wedding...

Project surface = chaos

Cutting the original drawing = yikes!

For some reason the linework on this piece reminds me of Calvin and Hobbes (AMK!)

Adding the Third Dimension

 

... and stars, because they're my favorite...

Framed!

All wrapped up to send. Thank you, USPS, for being gentle.

See how small 'tis?

Layering images

I stepped into a new form of collage to create a unique birthday present for my best friend: layering four 4" x 6" slices of plexiglass with snippets of images and text that are important to us. The Prado museum in Madrid where we saw Mucha together, a line from a poem she translated for me while we were in college, and a big ol' fingerprint I failed to wipe off before I stuck the layers together. (Oops. Now she can clone me.) Since standard frames you can find at regular art stores are too shallow to accommodate all the layers, I had a frame built custom by Kathleen at The Glenn in El Cerrito. It turned out looking gorgeous! I'm so happy with the final product.

Here are my layers!

paraphrasing Emily Dickinson

Detail of the middle panel

My typewriter put that 6 in here. Accidentally.

Each layer is about one quarter of an inch thick.

Stacking them up...

Four layers altogether

Custom frame from Kathleen

See how deep this is? Perfect for my project!

Four layers of plexiglass + frame = lovely

Another angle, more sunlight

Peering into the layers from the top

I added this backing, cut from a calendar of vintage drawings of birds

The inscription

I was afraid to nail this in, but I did it anyway :-)

Off it goes, into the capable hands of USPS...