All of the few friends I have in Melbourne (hey, I am new here, give me a break huh! ;) ) are busy this weekend. You know what that means? I have plenty of time to get cracking on my projects!
The "Curtain" Project is currently well underway, just awaiting the end of budgetary restrictions for completion. We are not here, however, to speak of curtains! No! We are here to admire my throughly unartistic attempts at creativity.
The challenge?
1. Fill this rather empty wall space in my bedroom.
2 I have very colourful linen, mostly of the blue/purple variety however my favourite doona cover also has a lot of orange on it. Makes it hard to pick what colours to put in a piece of art to be hung directly above the bed right?
3. I have limited funds and don't want to go with something generic from Ikea.
I was walking past Typo on day (on a complete side note, I fricking LOVE Typo) and I saw that they had taken pages from books and stuck them loose to the wall as their window display. I loved the idea but, being a tenant, I could hardly stick hundreds of pages of books to a wall. I put some thought into the idea and decided to take a copy (I own at least 10) of my favourite book "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster, slice it down the spine and stick it collage style onto a piece of canvas. This is the result:
The "Curtain" Project is currently well underway, just awaiting the end of budgetary restrictions for completion. We are not here, however, to speak of curtains! No! We are here to admire my throughly unartistic attempts at creativity.
The challenge?
1. Fill this rather empty wall space in my bedroom.
2 I have very colourful linen, mostly of the blue/purple variety however my favourite doona cover also has a lot of orange on it. Makes it hard to pick what colours to put in a piece of art to be hung directly above the bed right?
3. I have limited funds and don't want to go with something generic from Ikea.
I was walking past Typo on day (on a complete side note, I fricking LOVE Typo) and I saw that they had taken pages from books and stuck them loose to the wall as their window display. I loved the idea but, being a tenant, I could hardly stick hundreds of pages of books to a wall. I put some thought into the idea and decided to take a copy (I own at least 10) of my favourite book "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster, slice it down the spine and stick it collage style onto a piece of canvas. This is the result:
It looks less crinkly in real life but it certainly hasn't lived up to the mental picture I have of it. Unfortunately my creative projects rarely do. Ruby's Creative Mind > Ruby's Creative Ability. I am going to hang it and live with it for a few weeks. A few people have suggested I lacquer it with a brownish hue but the aforementioned colourful linen concerns me. Thoughts?
This is it living on the wall. It looks far better on the wall, even if it does look a little wonky, and somewhat pink, in this picture! The pink can be blamed on my red curtains. Yes, red. Hence the need for The "Curtains" Project.
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