Françoise's birthday card...

My sister's birthday...she's fifty five today...
she really deserved a card...but a special one... here it is... the first page and the back one are ordinary collages...but the inside is quite a surprise...It took me hours and hours to make it... I had to undo a vintage postcard to get to understand how it was made...actually it's really maths...some parts are cut, some are folded one side or the other...it's necessary to make a drawing before you cut and stick the little things to decorate...

Strange conversations...

The cardboard is navy blue not black...inside you see a small poem by Ronsard: "let's go and see the rose..."

Chinese say drift wood and stones are the souls of long gone animals...

"Why do you dance Butterfly?

I want my Lady to forget her jail..."

"Françoise's garden at midday and when the fairies come out..."

Sisabeille's secrets: n°4

how does Sisabeille make such pictures....two examples...
of course it's easier to read n°1 first...

Sisabeille's secrets:n°3

once you have the exact figure, reverse the colours, and once more ,play with the palette and the lights...

Sisabeille's secrets: n°2

a piece of black veil

a statue

a scanner

put the statue on the scanner, cover with the veil and scan as Sisabeille explain underneath...

Sisabeille's secrets: n°1

bits of raffia
1 paper flower
2 leaves

a bit of wire

2 pearls
a statue

you tie the raffia around Sisabeille's plumpie waist...add the flower...delicately fix the leaves on her back to make the wings...twist the wire around the head to figure the antennas and add pearls at the end of each...now put the statue on the scanner, and make the background...in that case I used white fabric...visualize on your screen...redimension it ...to upload easily on your blog, 15 cm must be the longest dimension, not more...then play with the graphic palette...