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"Indian Giver". Shadow box; gouache, acrylic, wire, clay, paper, fabric, glass. 2008. - Owned.
I have made a few of these shadow boxes as gifts for friends. This particular one deals with relationships; the cycles within, the passing of time, and moving on. It was a tedious but enjoyable project. The backgrounds are done with gouache. I am familiar with watercolor, Gouache is similar but opaque and chalky. I started working with gouache to exercise the techniques that go into hand painted animation backgrounds, something which I am interested in. I used mixed media; paper, fabric, clay... for each skeleton I used wire and clay.