View From The Cloister
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[Image ID] The foreground consists of a wall with three arched window openings, through each of which a fantasy scene is visible. The left-hand window is a landscape on a moonlit night. A full moon fills the sky, but the right hand side is partially obscured by tall thin trees. The left side of the moon is also partially covered, in this case by two tall spotty-capped orange toadstools. Beneath them, clusters of smaller mushrooms fill the lower corners of the window. The middle window shows an adult fairy crouched on a branch looking across faint hills in the background. Beneath her branch are various shapes and sizes of brown mushrooms. The right-hand window features a central tall toadstool, which almost reaches the full height of the window. A child fairy stands on either side, looking up at the toadstool, the right hand one is also pointing at it. [description end]
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The three window shapes were traced onto paper through remnants left over from cutting out the Sizzix Bigz Die ‘Cathedral Window’.
I ink-blended through the die-cut stencil to try and keep the colour within the window shapes. I used torn paper masks and more ink blending to create the ground and hills. The moon was done using an acetate mask I die-cut with a circle die.
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[Image
ID] A close up of the left window [description end]
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[Image
ID] close up of the middle window [description end]
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[Image
ID] close up of right window [description end]
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All of the stamps within the ‘windows’ are from Lavinia but the small brick stamp used on the surround came with a papercraft magazine from a couple of years ago.
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[Image
ID] this photo shows the art piece on a brown background within a horizontal rectangular black frame [description end]
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I put the completed piece in a frame and I keep it on display near my art desk.
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Raven, Rory & Darcy, Mushroom Lanterns, Meadow Mushroom (miniature), Forest Mushroom (miniature), Spotty Toadstool, & Forest Scene stamps - Lavinia Stamps
Small bricks stamp from an older issue of Creative Stamping
Cathedral Window Bigz die – Sizzix
Distress Ink in various colours
Silver Mist Glitter Marker (used to accent the dots on the mushrooms) – Tonic Studios
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