Monday, February 23, 2009

Decoupage with Degas' Dancers

Try saying that three times fast...

I finished my decoupage project today... finally. I started it senior year when the Union Street Houses had no mirrors again (except the one in the bathroom which is hard to use if someone is taking/ just took a big poo in there) and I bought this cheap plastic frame mirror from Watson's Hardware that was so ugly that I decided to beautify it with decoupage. I used an old calendar I had gotten from the Met with a bunch of dancer paintings from Degas. However, I only had so much time in my busy academic schedule to cut out scraps of paper and glue them onto this frame, so it was slow going. Also, then I made a documentary and that took up a lot of time. Also then I graduated and went abroad and I didn't take it with me. And then since I've been home I've had a lot of catching up to do in terms of television, so really my schedule has been jam-packed.

Plus, have you ever tried to decoupage? It is kind of messy. Not just because you are basically getting glue all over your fingers the whole time, but also when you cut out the paper to glue, the little bits that you trim off get everywhere. So I have to be pretty motivated to do it. But, since I am going to New York soon, I decided I couldn't leave the task unfinished again, because I thought if I did that twice it would never get done. And now it is done! Hooray!

I think I am drawn to decoupage because I'm not that artistic, so it isn't like I can paint or draw really well. So this way I can just take someone else's art/ photos/ whatever, and glue it onto something else and make it pretty. My mom likes to paint, so she'll paint stuff onto furniture to spice it up. I will decoupage. Or get other ideas from The Big Ass Book of Crafts, after I get it off my wishlist and in my hands.

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