Recent Work - Part 2

So here is part 2 of my newest work.  It's coming along, but I am not sure about ways in which I might display these?  Any ideas, please comment.  I thought about building a wooden frame for them since they are canvas-board material, but I hate canvas-board so much I wouldn't want it to be visible from the surface.   It would be ideal to have the edges of them hidden, but still keep them together, not in separate frames.

Related to process, after I applied acrylic gesso and tons of gloss gel medium, I experimented with the Lazertran images over the collage pieces.  The part that will make this piece or break it is really the final display that I chose.

Been a while... here's some new shiz

I've been experimenting with collage, acrylic, gel medium and digital images via lazertran, (which is the most versatile stuff I have ever used...)  Right... so I have four panels, that look similar to this and I am overlaying digital work based on several photographs and paintings in Photoshop.  I am unsure about how I might display this work or how this might end up looking.  I like the idea of building layers, then subtracting, re-  building, etc.  I'll keep progress posted.

A.

IF - Wrinkles

yep... here she is in all of her charcoal glory :)

working on....

Tibetan Protests

I saw pictures yesterday of dead Tibetan civilian protesters.  They were leaked photos that keep getting shut down in an attempt to seal the evidence of what is truly happening.  (Or possibly because they are so graphic.)  All of the photos were of people with a single shot wound, some lying in pools of blood, several on doors used as temporary stretchers, some with organs lying near them.

It must have made me think because I am still a little charged from seeing them.  I wonder what direction I am being pushed though.  When I first saw them, I was sort of fascinated by what it actually looked like and what must have physically happened in terms of why there might have been marks in some places on a body, etc.  Then I started reading the captions which listed the name of the person in the photo who was killed as well as their parents' names, age, and city of residence.  I don't know what happened, but I read that information and it made me feel ill.

Whatever is causing people to hurt and kill each other, I have to think it's stronger than I comprehend.  I now realize how much I don't understand.  My life isn't long enough to understand.

I highly recommend this site though:

http://88.80.13.160/wiki/Wikileaks

Illustration Friday - Fail

Poor little mosquito.  Everyone is down on mosquitos.... so this is for all neglected beings :)

Illustration Friday - Save

This is my submission for Illustration Friday's theme, "save."

Cheers and lamprey grins!

Anna