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

13 comments:

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

    greetings, Alie :-)

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

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  8. love this collage ! this is a wonderful idea !

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  9. 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. 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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