when i think of lorelei...

finished product... with just a little glare

posted by: jennifer

as soon as we found out we were having a girl two years ago, we knew we wanted to name here lorelei and we also knew that we wanted to frame the lyrics to the styx song [you can find the lyrics here] and put it in her room.  due to a little procrastination and almost two years later... i finally got around to it.

the materials: frame with mat, glue, glitter and my ibook

i used freehand to create the lorelei lyric print.  each word is its own separate object in order to adjust size, placement and spacing.

adding glitter to the mat... what little girl doesn't like sparkly things!

apparently adding glue and glitter to a mat makes it separate and curl... live and learn...

the finished print

Wall Art for Florida House

Nana, 1940's

Nana, 1940's


Nana, 1940's

This is a project I've wanted to do for some time. My foxy Nana is my muse!
First, I took store-bought stretched canvas (AC Moore, on sale $5, 16X20) and painted it with the same latex paint that is on the walls of the bedrooms. Then, using my first silkscreen, I inked the background green image. Then, once dry, I took the second silkscreen & did the black ink overlay. I'm pleased with the pop-art quality of this. After all, if I'm going to have to have a hot babe in a bikini on my walls, it's going to be my late, great Polish grandmother!

I had the vellum for creating the silkscreen printed at Seneca Blueprint. I'll post my technique for creating the silkscreens in another post but a quick tutorial is available here from Peach Berserk, where I took the class & fell in love with the fashions many, many years ago.