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Tuesday, May 22, 2007

A Door for the Decatur Arts Festival!

     Have I been quiet lately? Seems like it from this side. Why? Because I've been incredibly, insanely busy of late (14 hour work days, no lie). I won't bore you with the details but I do want to share one of the projects I just finished.
     Diane at Little Shop of Stories roped fellow illustrator, Liz Conrad, and me into painting a door to be auctioned off at this year's Decatur Arts Festival. This turned out to be quite the project when the old, stripped, mission-style (aka heavy) door arrived. It took five coats of primer and paint to cover each side - no small task!
     After days of prep, it was time for Liz to come over. We set up a great work space in the garage with hubbie's stereo blasting awesome tunes (yes, it's his favorite room). The weather was beautfiul and our supplies were plentiful. Now, what to do?
     We decided to lean on the bright colors both our illustration styles share and created a rainbow palette on the inset panels. To those we added cut-outs from our books (the galleys and such). Here's Liz doing her amazing cutting thing (cut paper is her preferred medium, so she's a whiz).
     We ended up using a combination of paint, collage, decoupage, 3-D, you name it. Here's me painting antennae on one of the carrot butterflies from Glitter Girl and the Crazy Cheese.
     The cool thing was, collaborating and working with paints and modge podge was something neither Liz nor I had done in a long time. We worked well together and it ended up being a fun break and a wonderful creative exercise. We really enjoyed it.
     It took two days to complete and we were pretty darned pleased with the finished door, must say. We both agreed it would be a fun, colorful addition to a child's bedroom. (Hope the purchaser sends a pic if they come across this blog post.) Here's the finished product:

     It will be included with the other colorful doors around the gazebo downtown during the arts festival. I'll be teaching Creating Picture Books at the John C. Campbell Folk School, so won't be there to hear the oohs and aahs, but Liz promises to share pictures. In other words, more to come!

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5 Comments:

Blogger Sarah said...

What a great door! It looks so wonderful and both of your styles work really great together. Nice job!

9:35 AM  
Blogger gail said...

Sarah is so right about the combo of styles. What a cool door! Looks like you had a lot of fun too!

gail

1:06 PM  
Blogger Ginger*:)* said...

Wow, Elizabeth and Liz.... I aDOOR it! What a wonderful, colorful and whimsical creation.
Just aDOORable! The two of you are a great combination!

12:14 PM  
Anonymous Kerry Madden said...

What beautiful pictures, Elizabeth and Liz! Lovely! Have a great time in North Carolina! Your students are so lucky!!

All best
Kerry

PS Thanks for the interview too!

4:54 PM  
Blogger Laura Zarrin said...

Beautiful door!! I love it and would put it in my house in a minute. How lucky you are to be able to collaborate like that. What fun!!

6:41 PM  

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