Poe's Requilary
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Poe's Requilary is a piece for The Smeared and Smudged Forum's January Member Blog Hop. Even though I had a limited amount of time to work on it I had lots of fun with putting it together. I started with a cheap Italian triptych. It was nearly the same as this one someone is trying to sell for $145! OK, the hot glue gun design and the Madonna With Child picture was different but they are really similar. Did I ruin a $145 antique triptych?! I didn't Google one till AFTER I had altered it. Oh well. First I painted the triptych silver. I left a bead of gold around the inside of the frame. I glued in an image of Poe from a Free Vintage Printable - Edgar Allen Poe Collage available at Free Vintage Digital Stamps. I painted black around and into the image. I highlighted Poe's face with a bit of white on the forehead, nose and chin. I doubt that you can really see it in the picture I took, but it enhances the pop-out effect from the background and makes Poe look more ghostly. I gave the frame a weak wash of black and used a baby wipe to take some of the paint off the raised design. I rummaged in my stash and found a scarlet ribbon rose along with some thin black ribbon. A sliver of one of Poe's finger bones was a sacrifice by a Halloween necklace. I had just as much fun with setting the stage for the picture I took. The raven and the skull snowglobe were from this past Halloween's merchandise at Walgreens, of all places.
Poe's Requilary
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Laura
Sue The Nanny
Kapree
Shoni
Fiona
Shell (you came from here)
Molly The Fishmonger (you are HERE)
Lisa (you're going here ;-))
Alison
Kristy
Monique
