A gift I can show!
The artist was quite certain her cousin would never know about this blog and was OK with me sharing this work before the holidays.
This is one of my 14 year old students, an artwork she created to give to her cousin who was married this past summer.
After painting a very neutral acrylic background of whites, she took a photograph of her cousin moments after saying "I do" and printed it off the computer.
Using the printer image, she then did an image transfer onto her birch board that she painted.
Then using more paint, graphite, and watercolor pencils she created this beautiful artwork.
They were not married in a forest meadow and there were in fact other people at one point in this image, which gives you an idea of the amount of original painting she did to meld the image transfer into the final art.
When finished, the artist then tried her hand at cold wax for the first time. There was a bit of a learning curve but in the end, she got the "icing" just right. She used the wax in it's natural state and with a bit of waterbed oil paint in titanium white.
Simply breathtaking.
I'm sure her cousin will not only be thrilled but quite touched that this 14 year old loves her enough to create such thoughtful and timeless gift of one of the most important days of her life.
14 year old, mixed media
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