In addition to developing a proper title, there are a few tasks I need to accomplish before I can dive into painting this piece. In addition to tackling all of the carving needed to complete the frame, I also have to fabricate the different figures/characters for the canvas itself. One of those characters is The Queen Of Fire And Ice. Here are her beginnings:
The basis for this incarnation of The Queen Of Fire And Ice comes from part of the frame for another piece I am working on called Bro Kin.
On to the other figure I need for this piece: The Discount Protagonist. This is a mask I made several years ago which was originally used for a piece called 'Divided By...' that I showed in Merican-Tastic! at The Bucktown Center For The Arts. About a year later I replaced this mask (and its companion mask) with a carved wooden panels. Ever since that time, they have sat in a cupboard waiting for a time to be repurposed. That time is now.
A two-pronged handsaw/utility knife assault results in a (surprisingly!?) bloodless separation of mask from armature.
Test driving the mask on the rest of its 'head'.
Love the texture on this weathered piece of plywood.
Now with the addition of a body.
While I was working on the face and body, I stuffed the old head armature off to the side. I couldn't help but notice how interesting/compelling it is.
This may turn up as a future piece or I might just draw it and the drawing finds its way into a future piece. No promises.
An under-illuminated shot of the finished business attached to the canvas.
Gotta have an X here and an X there to mark 'the spot'.
Now for some detail images of the canvas becoming primed/unified and ready to receive some color.
The Queen of Fire and Ice.
An X dutifully marking 'the spot'.
Our 'Discount Protagonist'.
A bunch of Xs marking a bunch of spots.
Primed and ready to be painted.
Next time we look at Voyage of Discovery, it will have some color, and it will be called Skinner Box II: Lessons Unlearned.
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