If I had more time and lived in the US, I’d join this swap. As it is, i am barely managing to keep up with the swaps I have signed up with, the zine, my secret friend packages (a lovely initiative by Modwest Stampers—you send a suprise parcel to someone and receive one back).
So no time to swap Marie Antoinette art. But that doesn’t mean I didn’t manage to make anything (my English teacher would rap me on my knuckles for this sentence, by the way—two negatives? What were you thinking of?). As part of the Marie week celebrations, I put together another little collage, which I actually like a lot more than the first one I made. Marie images tend to be rather same-ish, given that, originally, they all come from the same handful of paintings, so I quite like the fact that her face is half hidden here. Plus, fanning yourself with a rose is so decadently Marie Antoinett-ish…
Anyway, Nicco was inspired to make a Marie Antoinette collage too. Except that it started life as a Marie collage (he took my cast off images) and ended up as a Nicco collage—Marie’s portrait dwarfed by a picture of himself and his sister playing together. When it comes to being self-centred, Marie was not a patch on my son….
