Art in general – Page 11 – The Consulting Artist

In Cod We Trust

This is the fourth piece of art I’ve made so far in 2018 (some of the other new pieces will appear on the blog soon). The adapted dollar bill, made using Posca paint pens and Pebeo silver acrylic paint, emerged a few weeks ago and the backdrop was made today. I’ve decided to make this the first free art drop of 2018, so if you happen to live in the Wallington/Carshalton area – keep an eye out for it this weekend. Happy New Year!

Here’s the art with the dollar bill pressed and fixed into place – looks a bit tidier now. I liked making this – I may well do a series of these.

Left and Found

Following my first art experiment with found objects earlier this week – I decided to leave a found object as part of the free art project. I took an Ostreidae Aurum and decorated the inner shell using some of my favourite shades of blue. The intention was to give the shell away along with one of my charity calendars, then I remembered I still had a few proof copies left. One of the proof copies has an alternative cover which didn’t make final production. It is however a great match for the shell. So I paired the two items and hid them in our local library.

Found Objects : Ostreidae Aurum

I collected a few shells on a recent visit to The Thames Estuary, intending to do something vaguely artistic with them. For the past few weeks I’ve been absentmindedly picking them up, turning them over and over in my hands, and putting them back down again.

Last night I took a few brushes, some gold leaf and gilding paste, and did this.

I love how the gold leaf appears to flow over the shell contours, and how it doggedly refuses to stick to the entire surface.

This might be the first in a series of modified found objects, we’ll see.