ATCReVisited: St. Winifred

It's exciting to be a part of the ATC ReVisioned group. Early on in my art journey, I took an oil painting class. When I was needing help with part of my painting, the instructor drew a sketch on a piece of paper to demonstrate something, and when he was done, he signed the scrap of paper and put it in his pocket.When I looked at him puzzled, he told me to always sign my work and NEVER throw away any art I made.Although I don't sign doodles, I always save art work that I have done, even the most awful stuff. I was especially interested in going back to some of my older pieces that were stored away that I wasn't sure of, didn't like, hated, or just plain didn't care about and turn them intosomething else.

I found a 5x8 piece that I intended to donate as part of a fundraiser for cancer but decided it was too personal as it includes a picture of my mother as a young woman in her brand new nursing uniform. The photos and written material were transferred onto white muslin using a

gel medium. This was mounted on a piece of upholstery fabric. I added buttons that looked like eyeballs to the corners. "St. Winifred" was put away for "later".

For ATCR (revisited) I decided to mount the 5x8 collage on another piece of decorator fabric, a pale green with scattered wispy brown branches . It looked kind of blah, however, so I decided to repeat some of the black of the ambulance guys on the 5x8. After trying several methods, I ended up using black Versatex screen printing paint, scraping it over the stencil like I was silk screening. This provided me with the dark black that I wanted.

The 5x8 collage was placed so the stenciled clock looked like a halo over my mother's photo. I added black binding for more contrast.Not sure I like that, however. It has been fun revisiting some old work and I am looking forward to working on the next piece!