Happy Birthday Edgar A. Poe!

Poe Requilary, Revisited

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I had worked on this triptych  for my Smeared and Smudged Blog Hop post but it wasn't quite finished. So in honor of Poe's birthday I finally completed the piece. It had photographed rather "new" looking so first of all I gave it a darker black wash and wiped it off... again. MUCH better. Then I turned the triptych over to add THE MAN BEHIND POE, THE POUGHKEEPSIE SEER, ANDREW JACKSON DAVIS. Davis was a clairvoyant whose lectures on mesmerism Poe had attended before writing "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar". Davis, (born in Blooming Grove, NY, 1826) moved to Poughkeepsie, NY in 1843 when he was 17. He died in Boston January 13, 1910, just 6 days shy of Poe's birthday. Who cares? You may ask that! I grew up in Poughkeepsie and a few years ago they celebrated Poe-keepsie (pronounced the same way) at Vassar College for The Big Read. The lectures by Davis that Poe attended may or may not have influenced him, but I would like to think so. Therefore... I added THE MAN BEHIND POE both as a play on words and to add a personal touch to the triptych. 

THE MAN BEHIND POE,

 THE POUGHKEEPSIE SEER, ANDREW JACKSON DAVIS

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Without further ado I am submitting the triptych to Quoth The Raven for their Quest #28: Anything Poes.

Smeared and Smudged Member Blog Hop!

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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The Smeared and Smudged Member Blog Hop:   Tori
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