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Showing posts with label India. Show all posts
Showing posts with label India. Show all posts

Saturday, October 18, 2014

Mixed Media Mayhem - The Taj Mahal - Three Views/Three Viewpoints



When I need a journal fix, and I have no plan, I like to gesso the pages and smoosh them together for a ridged texture.  That's how this spread began.  I sprayed with Dylusions and scribbled on some Gelatos.  And, since pink is the basic black of India, I began thinking of images and papers in my stash from my trip to Rajasthan.  I chose one of my zillion photos I took of the Taj Mahal and printed it in several versions.

I used one of the images to draw, cut, and emboss kid foam to make a stamp and impressed it onto the page.


I printed the image several times in different versions to place around the page.  I found some swirly pink and gold paper in my scrapbook file and a cute elephant from a World Market purchase.



Now that I had three vesions of the Taj I looked for quotations that would suit the page...Voila...three views...from romantic to cynical...





Friday, May 2, 2014

Sunset Place


India is such a rich environment for photography.  The juxtaposition of traditional and modern, the intensity of color, the richness of textures.  A walk through the old city in Jaisalmer, India brought me to this lunch stop...well if I could get past a small obstacle.  I love the geometric shapes in this space...