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September host of Brand Ambassadors' Spotlight is Olga Heldwein and her theme is "JunkArt - assemblage trash to treasure". Below are our talented Ambassadors: Iwona, Kasia and Riikka share their projects with you.
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Our theme for this month is "JunkArt". This topic is perfect for me, on my desk you will find a lot of "trash" that I like to give new life to. There will also be old light bulbs, various metal elements, and parts of some mechanisms. I often use such things in my projects. In this artwork, I used a large, wooden platform that waited several years for its moment. On this, I built a Halloween composition using the rubbish from the desk. To ensure that everything fits together beautifully, I used liquid acrylic paints and of course, white gesso which is perfect for such purposes.
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Some time ago I did several altered mint tins. Perhaps just because I did several in a row, the extra tins I had in my stash didn’t inspire me the same way. But this theme, “trash to treasure”, made me think about those tins again and I used one of them here, but with a little twist compared to the ones I made before.
The tins I made during last fall and spring all had the surprise inside. The tin looked like an ordinary mint tin from the top, but when you opened it, you didn’t find sweets but instead a little autumn scenery, for example. But this time I decorated the cover again and kept the inside as it is.
My goal was to use a lot of items from my “beautiful trash” collection. There’s a couple of Mechanicals in the composition as well, but mainly the items are trash. There’s a spice jar lid, an empty roll of tape, a soda can pull and several buttons. There’s even a key from an old mobile phone!
I first thought to paint the assemblage with white gesso and turn it into whole other colour. But after adhering the items using Heavy Body Gel, their colours matched quite nicely, so I added just touches of colour here and there. I used Liquid acrylic and diluted them to be more translucent using Liquid Color Fluid Medium.
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