Christmas Collage Art on Recycled Plastic Bottle by Tori
This past weekend several of us gathered for a day to play and make Christmas gifts for friends and family.
One piece that now rests on my kitchen counter is a candle holder made using a recycled plastic bottle as the carrier for original collage art created by Tori. Tori is an artist at age seven who already has a keen eye for color and composition. With a little help from mom Ollie, Tori used both natural elements like dried flower blossoms in contrast to plastic cut-outs of frogs. Around the sculpture, she angled words such as Pray and Believe, all words that speak to part of her education at a private Christian school.
Close up slightly overhead
Straight on view
One piece that now rests on my kitchen counter is a candle holder made using a recycled plastic bottle as the carrier for original collage art created by Tori. Tori is an artist at age seven who already has a keen eye for color and composition. With a little help from mom Ollie, Tori used both natural elements like dried flower blossoms in contrast to plastic cut-outs of frogs. Around the sculpture, she angled words such as Pray and Believe, all words that speak to part of her education at a private Christian school.
Close up slightly overhead
Straight on view
Hi Victoria, This is just beautiful, and what a wonderful way to spend the day with family! Little Tori has talent, no surprise there. Lv, Carole
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Tori made this piece as a gift for me prior to the art making party at our weekend get -together - her Uncle Bill brought it to the party. She is my namesake and at some point in the future we will put together art by the 2 Viktorya's!
Collage Art is a technique I've used on many carriers - wood furniture, trays and on the back of glass plates such as in this example below. Centered on this 6" glass plate is a 1950's Home Sewing image with a woman sitting at a sewing machine. Pattern paper is then collaged over that image and then the plate is painted with acrylic paint and sealed. For Napa open studio in 2001 and 2002 I made several versions, some with Napa Valley Wine as the theme - all of the plates sold quickly. These make great Christmas gifts but I will add they are time consuming in that one has to take great care not to have air bubbles show through the plate. At times I've had to deconstruct the images by slicing thru all the paper with a razor blade and cutting out portions, but within that deconstruction some pretty unique pieces were created.
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Hi Carole!
She does have a way of perceiving things that I think most children do but she has had the privilege of expressing hers since she was able to hold a crayon in her hand.
The gathering was great - and I recommend it for families. We intended to make gifts on Friday afternoon and Saturday, but instead we reinvented our time together. We didn't get to the making until late Friday night - Bill and Kassi baked Christmas cookies; my mom, Grandma Allen's voice about cookie-baking-directions came through Gary - she taught him a lot about baking
Saturday morning we started painting objet d'art - vases and figurines and also played around with pipe cleaners. Mimi's Santa was intricately carved and her paint technique brought out the detail - he's still in process. Gary's pipe cleaner Santa turned out really cool as did Kassi's snowman and angel. Luke the Labrador was up to his usual pranks retrieving anything that looked good and that was within range of his mouth - sunglasses, kleenex boxes, candy. It's pretty funny because one common phrase in our family is "What's he got in his mouth?" And then the chase is on, trying to get it from him....
Family get togethers are fun when expectations of shoulda, woulda, coulda are replaced with 'going with the flow.'
Cheers,
Viktorya
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