Missing Pieces
A revived project for me is this altered puzzle. It's a perfect canvas for a heritage project I've been allowing my subconscious to create. For this, I started with a large child's puzzle for my base. I assembled the puzzle and then carefully marked on the reverse side a number and an arrow indicating the order, direction and sequence of each piece. The idea is to alter the pieces and then be able to "assemble" the puzzle and actually have all the pieces going in the right direction. Basically I didn't want Grandma to be upright and Grandpa to be upside down. Although that would be definitely "altered" it didn't serve my purpose and intention. Some of the pieces were left plain with a large purple dinosaur exposed. They'll be lightly sanded so they have "t ooth" and I'll collage various heritage papers to the pieces for background. Some pieces were gessoed. The white background will be perfect for rubberstamping or free-hand ...