These are my pieces for this week's challenge of Hello Dolly, on Mixed Media Monday. We watch A LOT of old movies and I knew I wanted to focus on the movie "Hello Dolly". There are some wonderful hats in that movie. I love vintage hats, and I wanted to incorporate vintage hats into my piece somehow.
Then I remembered the set of 4 ink sketches I purchased at a local antique store...
The sketches were on heavy watercolor paper, pretty much already ATC size. Not all have hats, but I thought you'd like to see them all, and I encourage you to enlarge them, the facial detail is so lovely.
I embellished them simply, with the goal of enhancing and extending, but keeping true to the spirit of the original artist and his or her subjects.
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These look very much like Harrison Fisher's American Beauties. Were they signed? Anyway, they're beautiful!
ReplyDeleteHi Bev, Thanks for looking. All were unsigned, and yes, very lovely!
ReplyDeleteGosh these are beautiful.
ReplyDeleteFantastic work.
They're wonderful and you've enhanced your treasured sketches beautifully!!
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Oh wow these really are gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteThese are beautiful ATC's - each and every one of them! Diane
ReplyDeleteOh, lovely! I think you made a wise decision in keeping the embellishment simple and somewhat minimal: you've complemented and added to the art, rather than overwhelming it or 'speaking over the top of it'. I especially love your use of feathers. (I know this blog post was made seven years ago, but I still wanted to comment.)
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