Secret Window

An original one-of-a-kind (OOAK) 1/1 - 5"x7" highly textured mixed media collage/altered art painting.

Created for the ZNE Theme Week Competition - Theme: Mermaids. Search Ebay for "ZNE theme week".

"Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests."
Charles Lindbergh

I took a photo of a woman and collaged her with a hand-painted mermaid tail, and then drew in ink some designs on her back and arm and drew in her hair. The background is collaged papers which have then been painted and sponged over with acrylics, metallic, and pearl paints. I painted over a small paper frame and collaged that over a postcard of bright flowers. Over that there are some hand-dyed fibers, a tumbled glass piece with metallic paints & pearl powder, and a large vintage brooch.