Having spent time on this piece of altered art I was disappointed to find it difficult to photograph it as it looks so much better IRL.
I bought this "thing" at a sale somewhere but cannot for the life in me remember where. One of the tubes contained salt but the other two were empty - all had corks in the top.
I decided to alter it and use my Alcohol Inks to colour the 'glass test tube like containers' and painted the base with Croco paint in Bronze. Then I tried wrapping wire around the glass tubes but it kept slipping - back to the drawing board! I then stamped some flowers on OHP film which had been coloured with alcohol Inks - they didn't show up. Next thought was to do the flowers in metal, puffing them up a bit and that worked better than anything I had tried so that is what you see. I also embossed some metal with the word "Dream" and used one of my tools to give it a bit of texture at the base.
Unsure which photograph show it best
The tubes laid in a row
This is my entry for the Lots to Do Challenge this week - which is Alcohol Inks. It is going to get used for specimen flowers so the corks are surplus to requirements but I am sure I will find a use for them one day.
