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Kind of just playing around. Not sure how well I think the various elements fit together, but that’s okay, since this was primarily an experiment anyway.

Also not sure how I feel about the inlay thing I’m doing in the swirls and the clouds—the pieces never fit together as clean and snug as I want them to. The other option is to just layer everything, like I did with the branches and birds, and that would make for neater seams… but that gives things a layered quality, and I like the flatness of the inlay, I like that it allows me to keep multiple colors in the same plane. Also, there’s a certain stylistic quality to the cracks between the loose-fitting colored pieces? Just, I’m not sure if it’s a quality I like.

Oh yeah! And also I got a better glue at the art store—I actually worked up the nerve to ask for advice and everything. This Modge Podge stuff goes on thinner so I have less excess squishing out from under the edges, and it doesn’t seem to stain as badly when accidents do happen. I am quite pleased; my only complaint is that it dries annoyingly fast and with larger, complex pieces I have to glue them down in multiple steps. The bird Silhouette must have taken 20 different applications.
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ccRask's avatar
This is beautiful; paper-cutting is so difficult, and inlaying? Holy poop. You're a crazy woman!