Whatever Art for the Starting from the Same Place Artist Collaboration

I love the artist community I am a part of! Happy Dance as I was given the opportunity to be involved with a very special project that was the brain child of Tina Walker. She thought it would be cool if we all had the same pieces parts with which to create a piece of art. What she didn't plan on was the amount of people who would want in. Some of us donated pieces, others were donated by companies, and then we all paid a very small amount for shipping. In all, we were able to create something quite unique and very special to share with you today. I think about sixty people participated. Thirty of us provided sneak peeks to create that photo collage you see below.

We even had some corporate sponsors! Beacon Adhesives provided some rock star glue I'm in love with and Amazing Casting Products provided the resin for the hard plastic flowers. StencilGirl hooked us up with the awesome stencil. 

Normally I'm not so timid working on something like this. I get out the hot glue gun and start sticking, In this case, I actually laid it out first and then worked it around a little.



Here is a rough draft. ;-) The paint brush I have been hoarding for ages and the real wings (an actual butterfly was not harmed in the process) were donated by my Mom.






































I used an old metal embroidery hoop to stretch the hand dyed fabric over. Then I stenciled using black spray paint. Added a bit of purple in various color to the paint brush that was already ruined. I embossed the cogs using gold and then smeared some gold paint along the edges of the piece.

I was having a hard time using the heavy green fabric until I decided to use it to cut leaves from it. LOVE how those turned out! Paired up with this grumpy little vintage girl, it's my favorite part of the piece! The little plastic piece she is standing on I sent along for everyone. I am not even sure what they are....but found them at some point and was happy to share!

In all, an amazing experience! If you are interested in seeing what others created, the links are below!

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2. Katie S. Dream Journal

3. My Pieces of Time: Preview "Starting At The Same P

4. Book of good fortune - Sanna Lippert, Austria

5. Kerry Urbatch

6. Michele-Stuff By Belle

7. FacebookTEST LINK

8. Susan M. Brown

9. Mandi Holmes

10. Junk ta Funk - Drucilla

11. From the Same Place Collab

12. Kristie Taylor

13. Laura Mooney

14. Juliana Michaels

15. Facebook - Tracy Canvas Mini Album

16. Cally - Australia

17. Canvas - Jacqui - Australia

18. Sandra Jenkins - UK

19. Keri Sallee

20. https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=Blogger

21. Lynne Forsythe

22. The Veiled Lady of the Desert

23. Becky Litz

24. Yvonne Yam

25. Giovana

26. Nolwenn Petitbois

27. Martha Richardson

28. Whatever Art