When I started this piece I wasn’t sure where it was going to go, but I knew that I wanted it to be adorable and also have little nods to my sense of humor and personality. I’m a collector. My room is cluttered with little trinkets and tiny decorations, so I wanted to use them for this project. It is a compilation of things that I have collected physically and personally.
I photographed my Russian nesting doll taken apart and separated, almost like it cracked apart, with my digital camera. I thought I could make an interesting composition with that. In my wardrobe, I like to rock a lot of floral print so I took some pictures of a few floral dresses and skirts of mine. I digitally cut the flowers out and put them into flower arrangements and placed them freely around the piece. I did the same with the birds at the top and fish at the bottom. I kept the edges looking a bit rough and I think that give the piece a hand-made feeling, which I like. It would have been nice to have some very small flowers tapering out around the bigger ones, but it was too difficult to cut those out. I also photographed the pins and the little blue gnome, affectionately named “Tyrone”.
I scanned in the watercolor washes seen in the background using the flatbed scanner. Then I digitally cut them out and layered them, then played with the opacity of each layer so that they would build up like watercolors naturally do. I also scanned in the bracelet, so that it would be extremely detailed.
Overall I’m pretty pleased with the outcome of this project. I think it portrays how quirky and whimsical I am with a touch of humor (“Is it friday yet?”). I named it "Anatomy of a Russian Nesting Doll", because much like the doll, there's a lot of things inside of me. Interests, ideas, passions and talents. The nesting doll also hints to my love of different countries cultures and of course flowers. Watercolors are beautiful and they’re my favorite medium to work with, so I knew they’d be a good fit in this piece. I like that it embraces girly things, but also stays very organic and quirky. It is kitsch, pastel, and glittery, all things I appreciate.
(credit: Audrey, for making me the lovely bracelet a few years ago.)
Overall I’m pretty pleased with the outcome of this project. I think it portrays how quirky and whimsical I am with a touch of humor (“Is it friday yet?”). I named it "Anatomy of a Russian Nesting Doll", because much like the doll, there's a lot of things inside of me. Interests, ideas, passions and talents. The nesting doll also hints to my love of different countries cultures and of course flowers. Watercolors are beautiful and they’re my favorite medium to work with, so I knew they’d be a good fit in this piece. I like that it embraces girly things, but also stays very organic and quirky. It is kitsch, pastel, and glittery, all things I appreciate.
(credit: Audrey, for making me the lovely bracelet a few years ago.)
- Avery Violet
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