two more down for Cafe Mia
Monday, October 5, 2009 at 08:33AM 
I finished two more paintings for Cafe Mia this weekend. (can you see me dancing righ now??!)
They had been around for too long with their Gelato sky (that I got from cutting strips of the menu) and I just couldn't decide why they weren't finished. They needed an extra something, and I found it whith a couple of old pictures I got from an Italian lady at an antiques shop. She gave me two old pictures of these young men who are standing alone, one has a field behind, the other one is standing on the steps of a house. She said the pictures were from Italy, the number 1939 is written on the back, I imagine it's meant they were taken on 1939.
I also added an old music score and handwritten antique paper.
The sky is made with the Cafe menu. The menu itself is amazing. It is close up pictures of gelato printed on shiny and thick cardstock. I cut the menu in strips and arranged it as the sky, when I was happy with the placement of the strips, I taped them with blue tape and turned them over to apply an adhesive that I got from a contractor that came to my house to fix the cabinets in my kitchen. It's called, and I'm not kidding, Sta'-Put. This can sprays a web of adhesive that makes you feel like you're Spiderman. Even if you have nothing to glue together, you should get it just to try it.
After gluing the strips down I sanded them to distress them a little. I then glued the picture and applied a lacquer coat to protect it and make it shiny.
These two paintings are to be displayed side by side and they are supposed to balance each other. I say "supposed" because I dont know how well I achieved that.
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Reader Comments (2)
These go together beautifully. Are you making a series? I could see bits of the menu going into several more pieces!