"The more you trust and rely upon the Spirit,
the greater your capacity to create."
~Dieter F. Uchtdorf
On
Paper Traders,
Connie is hosting a Gothic Arch swap - the pages will be added to the
deco books we made last year. The theme this time is "Renaissance Women" and I wanted to use works that were a little lesser known. I chose women who where all painted by
Il Bronzino - in most cases, these women were background characters in his works. For example, these women...
...can be found in this fresco:
And these two women...
...are found in this painting:
The backgrounds on these arches have more texture than really shows in the scans. I glued down torn vintage (gothic) texts and then covered with napkins or tissue paper. I used my gold leafing pen to finish the edges of each page. On each of them, I added accents with metallic & pearlescent paints and more touches with my gold pen!
Here are the rest of the pages I made...
