Watching Her Heart

Watching Her Heart
mixed media on canvas
6" x 8" x 1.5"
$50 + $10 shipping

I'm very pleased with this piece. Look closely behind the heart and you can see the eyes of a woman "watching her heart".

I started out with a deep stretched canvas, building up the green and blue surface with beeswax, crayon and flecks of gold leaf. Once that was dry, I made the cut-out in the centre so I could recess the 3-D heart. The final step was to affix the woman's face from the back. The woman's face is actually cut out from a famous poster by Rossetti. I had the poster in my living room for years - it was dry mounted on foamcore board, so it worked perfectly in this project (gave a nice clean finish for the back of the painting).

This painting is flexible in that it can stand up on its own (on a mantel or bookcase, for example) or be hung on the wall.

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