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As a challenge for myself this year, I printed out a calendar with all the picture sides left blank. My goal is to make a picture for each month before it runs out. I had the first ideas for the January image quite early, but it took most of the month for the concept to come together enough for me to start working on it.
The original concept was to make "glitter shadows" of the cut snowflakes. The technique didn't work out quite the way I'd imagined, and using the darker colors of glitter was a mistake -- I should have stuck to silver. I did the crayon/watercolor resist to make the background for the snowflakes more interesting than a plain page, but I think it got a little too interesting.
The snowflakes are cut using Tesh's origami snowflake seed method for obtaining the basic hexagon shape.
I bought the glitter as a sampler pack of sixteen different colors. I suspect that this may end up being the Year of Glitter, with some kind of glitter somewhere on each calendar picture as I endeavor to use each of the colors at least once.
The original concept was to make "glitter shadows" of the cut snowflakes. The technique didn't work out quite the way I'd imagined, and using the darker colors of glitter was a mistake -- I should have stuck to silver. I did the crayon/watercolor resist to make the background for the snowflakes more interesting than a plain page, but I think it got a little too interesting.
The snowflakes are cut using Tesh's origami snowflake seed method for obtaining the basic hexagon shape.
I bought the glitter as a sampler pack of sixteen different colors. I suspect that this may end up being the Year of Glitter, with some kind of glitter somewhere on each calendar picture as I endeavor to use each of the colors at least once.