Autumn Apples 3D

by Conni Schaftenaar

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16.000 x 20.000 x 3.000 inches

Title

Autumn Apples 3D

Artist

Conni Schaftenaar

Medium

Mixed Media - Watercolor On Mixed Media

Description

Photo of 3-dimensional apples done in watercolor and copper wire over watercolor painting background, by Conni Schaftenaar.

This is a photograph of my entry this year in the Festival of the Arts juried competition in Grand Rapids, MI. I was lucky to be one of the 230 or so artists to have a piece accepted out of close to 500 submissions.

I like to experiment with materials, how I combine them, shape them, colorize them. This experimental piece grew out of learning how to make layered pieces of watercolor painting into jewelry - I decided to make apples!

This piece is 3 dimensional - the whole assembly is mounted in a shadow box. The main flat image is watercolor painted on watercolor canvas (a gesso'd surface), and the 3D apples and leaves are painted on watercolor paper. The far background is watercolor painted on white mat board, which I added when the rest was done, realizing that the canvas isolated on the plain black background of the shadow box looked odd.

After painting the 3D apples and leaves on paper, I cut them out and used school glue to bond the layers (each apple or leaf is two layers, painted on each side), and mounted them on "branches" made with twisted copper wires.

As with the 2D version of this painting (also on my gallery), which was the inspiration for this work, I used only 3 transparent colors - Prussian Blue, Aureolin Yellow, and Permanent Rose. I love to see the variety of colors that can be achieved with such a simple palette!

Tied for 3rd Place in the Unique Work contest, November 2019
3rd Place Win in the Amazing World of Mosaics and Collages, October 2020
Honorable Mention finish in the Beauty And the Buzzz contest, July 2021
1st Place win in the What's The Buzzz - What Possessed You To Do That contest, August, 2021
3rd Place win in the Experimental Art Contest, October 2021
Honorable Mention tie in the Trying Something New contest, February 2022
Honorable Mention tie in the KTBUZZZ-2022 ART GAME SERIES- TRUTH OR DARE contest, April 2022
3rd place tie in the Purely Decorative Arts, June 2023
1st place win in the Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway contest, November 2023

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June 13th, 2018

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