Saturday, May 14, 2011

Ladybird

Ladybird by helencarter1001
Ladybird, a photo by helencarter1001 on Flickr.

I had a brainwave this morning. I was clearing out some rubbish and noticed that I had kept loads of cardboard boxes. Then I thought about using them to draw on....then I remembered that they had different layers so I grabbed my scalpel and started cutting away. This picture was done just to see what it would look like... You can see that I haven't positioned it very well so that there wasn't enough room for the bottom right hand corner but I was still quite happy with how it turned out... I like the texture and the different shades of each layer. So now I'm going to do a real picture with all four corners....and it just occurred to me that I'm also being very environmentally friendly at the same time!!!!!!

2 comments:

barbara said...

Cool technique! Very inspiring.

Helen Carter said...

Thanks a lot... actually quite therapeutic too.... all that cutting!!! :)