Tuesday's Play Day!

Beeswax collage on foam core board~j.n-l

I belong to a mixed media art group and we have decided to make every Tuesday an artistic play day.

Each week a new theme will be announced and each artist has the day to complete and upload an image of their work of art. The only "rules" are that each artist must incorporate the theme into a 4 inch by 4 inch art piece. This kind of piggy backs on the whole "art squared" concept that is very hot in the mixed media world right now.

The theme for this week was, "candle(s)".

Normally, I would do some "light of the world" kind of thing; but yesterday was my youngest son's birthday. Sooooo, I did a little birthday tribute for him instead!

This 4 X 4 collage was made with using foam core board (I covered the core board with a water color background), beeswax, recycled birthday candles, a metal rimmed slide mount and a photo of my son when he was younger. I printed the quote, "Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven." on tissue paper and collaged it to the foam core board.

This little piece of art squared can sit in a small easel, or hang on the wall!

Ok, so the collage itself isn't all that fancy...but, it was fun to create and my son loves it!

In fact, he was so impressed that he is going to take it for "show and tell" at school this week.

You know you've hit a grand slam when your child wants to take your art to show and tell!

LOL!

Ahhhhh children! You just gotta love them, don't you?