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Wednesday, 14 November 2012

Layered Convict Collage!

Take an acrylic stamp block, place an image on the back and start layering with sheets of collaged and inked shrink plastic, finally finish of with a sheet of mica!
Andy Skinner Layered Transparent Collage Art with Mica
This is very hard to photograph and its difficult to see the depth but there are four layers of shrink plastic on top of the block.


Who is the girl?? as fas as I know she was an Australian convict back in the 1920's.

Andy
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13 comments:

  1. Sue14 November 2012 at 12:14

    Wow! That looks great.....question..did you shrink the shrink plastic or just use as is? Is hard to tell from pic. Like the idea of using the acrylic block.

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    1. Andy Skinner14 November 2012 at 12:44

      Hi Sue, used it as it is and put four eyelets into each sheet, drilled very small holes, slightly smaller that the width of my upholstery nails into the block. I fixed them all together by pushing the upholstery nails through the eyelets and into the drilled holes........hope that makes sense :)

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  2. mark gould14 November 2012 at 17:50

    Could you use acetate Andy?

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    1. Andy Skinner15 November 2012 at 05:31

      I should think so, I clean the shrink plastic to remove finger print marks with blending solution... Not sure if that would react with acetate but worth a go.

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  3. froebelsternchen14 November 2012 at 18:25

    looks great!

    I want to say thank you for all the fabulous tutorials you share here for free!

    that´s wonderful!

    xxx from Austria

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  4. Alie Hoogenboezem-de Vries14 November 2012 at 18:51

    What a great creation! Love the effect....

    greetings, Alie :-)

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  5. Julia S-W14 November 2012 at 20:41

    I'm going to have to say wow as I think this is gorgeous Andy. Sue asked my question so glad I looked at the other comments. That picture looks a lot like me when I was young but I'm not that old so it's not me!!
    Juliax

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  6. Andy Skinner15 November 2012 at 05:33

    Thank you all

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  7. Brenda Brown15 November 2012 at 05:50

    Fabulous Andy, the depth that is created through the clear layers is amazing. Can you bring it with you Sunday to the workshop I would love to see it irl. Looking forward to creating all day at Wendy's.
    Hugs Brenda xxx

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  8. Andy Skinner16 November 2012 at 07:22

    Thanks Brenda, unfortunately it is not with me at the moment :(.. see you Sunday!

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  9. Catherine SIWCZAK17 November 2012 at 16:04

    love this collage ! this is a wonderful idea !

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  10. Maria18 November 2012 at 23:36

    Any chance you could do a tutorial, your work is amazing its a wonder Tim Holtz hasn't recruited you to showcase your work....

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    1. Andy Skinner19 November 2012 at 11:59

      Thanks Cat and Maria, if I get any time over the next month I may put something up but can't guarantee anything :(

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