Tag: Antique

OOAK Halloween Assemblage/DollHouse Miniature

Go There Now Ive been working on this piece forever, finally finished after making lots of the elements by hand, the candles, books, bottles, picture frames, bars, tarot cards, voodoo doll and so much more there really is a lot to see, the picture doesn't do it justice. Go There Now

ANGELS.

I began with an antique silk handkerchief and let it develop from there. The handkerchief has an acrylic paint and fabric medium wash on it; this was hand sewn onto the backing fabric of antique linen and a large piece of antique nightie case. The image of the two angels is an original picture from…

Out On A Limb: 80 rpm

Final post for today. Made with: antique trade card (American Song Birds: No. 12, Mockingbird, Singer Sewing Machine Co., 1898), record sleeve (Columbia Grafonola) and endpaper (The New Garden Encyclopedia, 1936); vintage sheet music (The Etude magazine, 1905) and endpaper (Field Guide to the Birds: Eastern Land & Water Birds, 1947); ink, watercolor, acrylic sealer and…

Out On A Limb: 19

Made with antique trade card (American Song Birds: Cardinal, Singer Sewing Machine Co., 1898) and map of Ohio; vintage Audubon birds coloring book page (circa 1930s); recycled greeting cards; ink, marker, watercolor, acrylic sealer and acrylic varnish. 5” x 5” on a cradled, hardwood panel.

Out On A limb: 19

Another collage combining black and white, and color images of birds. The "wood" in the collage came from a glass catalog (my Cincinnati studio is in a restored factory that also houses a glass school).  Made with antique and vintage illustrations (The Chatterbox,1899; John James Audubon calendar); recycled glass catalog; watercolor; chalk; ink; acrylic sealer; acrylic…

Out On A Limb: 9

I'm posting a few of my Out on a Limb collages before CPS' "put a bird on it" month ends. For quite some time, I've been juxtaposing black & white images of birds with color images. All the collages are on 5" or 6" inch square hardwood panels. This mixed-media piece was made with  vintage…

First responders

© mixed-media collage by Sara Pearce made with antique illustrations (The Chatterbox, 1874; The Ladies’ World, Oct. 1895, Oct. 1896; Delineator April 1894, Oct. 1904); vintage map (Pa. Geological Survey, 4th Series, Special Bulletin 8, Plate 6, 1957); recycled watercolor painting, wrapping paper, greeting card; ink, watercolor, marker, colored pencil; archival mat board. 19" x 12"…

Meditation

  © Meditation  Mixed-media collage by Sara Pearce. Made with original antique engraving (Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, June 1888), text (First Lessons in Numbers, 1865; Spencerian System of Penmanship, 1888) and paper. Vintage parcel post zone ruler and illustrations (Art Forms in Nature; Insects & Flowers: The Art of Maria Sibylla Merian). Recycled greeting cards…

Dark Wood Shadow Box

By Deborah A. Pierro – I ordered this shadow box from 7 Gypsies. The objects I glued in are: vintage heart pendant, vintage square pendnt, mask charm I purchased recently at the Bead Expo in Wilmington, Delaware, a black jewelry piece with a diamond center, vintage copper pieces, a gold angel with harp that I…