Hydrangea or Butterflies, You Decide 3D
by Conni Schaftenaar
Original - Sold
Price
Not Specified
Dimensions
16.000 x 20.000 inches
This piece has been already sold. Please feel free to contact the artist directly regarding this or other pieces.
Click here to contact the artist.
Title
Hydrangea or Butterflies, You Decide 3D
Artist
Conni Schaftenaar
Medium
Painting - Watercolor On Rice Paper
Description
Watercolor on rice paper, 3D butterflies and blossoms collage, by Conni Schaftenaar.
Beautiful blue butterflies morph out of and dance around a blue hydrangea blossom!
This is one of my two submissions to the Grand Rapids Festival of the Arts 2019. It was juried in and was on display at the Fed Gallery in Grand Rapids from late May to late June 2019. It now hangs in the home of an artist friend, who loves it, and for whom I made extra butterflies to fly up the wall above it - such fun!
It is based on a previous painting I had done on rice paper of butterflies morphing up out of a blue hydrangea blossom, with the question asked for the viewer to decide whether the "flower" was really a hydrangea or maybe a cluster of those blue butterflies. I wanted to try and execute it with 3D elements, and this is the result. The execution of this was challenging, as I had to figure out how to stiffen and mount the 3D butterflies and blossoms, and how to assemble the whole thing to a canvas.
I painted the hydrangea and background leaves and loose colors on ginwashi rice paper, pulled the edges to make them fuzzy and somewhat uneven and mounted it on a board. I then glued that board to a black canvas and then applied 3D butterflies and hydrangea blossoms and leaves all over. The 3D butterflies and blossoms are painted on rice paper and formed into 3-dimensional pieces by cutting them out and painting them with Mod Podge, then using egg cartons to shape them appropriately while drying. The 3D leaves are also painted on the rice paper and stiffened with Mod Podge and glued down.
2nd Place in Collage Group logo contest, May 2020
2nd Place tie in Of A Certain Age - Collage, Montage, Decoupage contest, February 2021
Honorable Mention tie in 3D Art contest, July 2021
Honorable Mention tie in What's The Buzzz - What Possessed You to do That contest, August, 2021
3rd place win in the KTBUZZZ-2022 ART GAME SERIES- TRUTH OR DARE contest, April 2022
1st place win in the 3-D Art Technique contest, September 2022
3rd place win in the No Cringe Zone Unique Art contest
Featured on:
Everyday Wonder, May 2019
Groovy Butterflies, May 2019
Exclusively Drawings & Paintings, April 2020
Collage, May 2020
Beautiful Collages, January 2021
Amazing Butterflies, April 2022
Art - It is Good For You, April 2022
Visions of Spring Glances of Summer, April 2022
Fantasy Flowers, April 2022
Painting Cafe, April 2022
Vertical Images, April 2022
Non Photography, April 2022
Midwest America Artists, April 2022
Wonder of Wings, April 2022
The ARTIST BUZzz - SPECIAL 🐝🎨GA FEATURE ARTIST of DISTINCTION for the MONTH of OCTOBER 2022
A Woman's Touch, November 2023
Created by My Hands - Non Digital, November 2023
Intent of the Artist, November 2023
The ARTIST BUZzz, November 2023
The ARTIST BUZzz - SPECIAL 🐝🎨GA FEATURE ARTIST of DISTINCTION for the MONTH of NOVEMBER 2023
Uploaded
May 7th, 2019
Statistics
Viewed 1,596 Times - Last Visitor from Fairfield, CT on 03/28/2024 at 4:57 PM
Embed
Share
Sales Sheet
Comments (138)
Laurel Adams
Conni, CONGRATULATIONS!! YOU are awarded: SPECIAL 🎨🐝🏆GA FEATURE ARTIST of DISTINCTION 🥁👏🏻. Please feel free to post your Special Feature, selected for its “Beauty and Backstory” in the ARTIST BUZzz Group Feature 2023 Archive. BRAVO!
Laurel Adams
Conni, CONGRATULATIONS!! Your lovely image has been featured in The ARTIST BUZzz GROUP!! You are cordially invited to POST your Homepage Feature’s EMBED link to the 2023 Features Archive Thread in the Discussion thread. Thank you for your glimpse of BEAUTY. Conni, When it comes to rice papers and watercolor, I always think of your ongoing desire to master the delicacy of the substrate whether thru (butterfly series) batik, (the moonlight over the Mountain) collage, (our “Mr. monk”) sculpture or 2 dimensional beauty like “Apple blossoms”…BRAVO! ..FAV This beauty is one of your finest…lucky client!
Kim McClinton
Congratulations, Conni, on your win in the NO CRINGE ZONE UNIQUE ART contest! I stopped and studied this wonderful work for a bit.
Sarah Irland
Congratulations, Conni, on your Win in the No Cringe Zone Unique Art for this wonderful painting! L/F
Laurel Adams
Conni, CONGRATULATIONS on your THIRD PLACE WIN in the No Cringe Zone Unique Art Contest! YAY! SO WELL DESERVED
Constance DRESCHER
Conni. Congratulations with your Top Win in the No Cringe Zone Unique Art contest for this lovely piece of art.
Lynn Raizel Lane
🏆 SPECIAL ADMIN TOP VIRTUAL TROPHY CHOICE *CONGRATS* 11/26/2023 out of 550 entries in art competition theme NO CRINGE ZONE UNIQUE ART, hosted by FAA and Art Contest Organizer, Lynn Raizel Lane, and voted by FAA Members AND General Public for recognition and high honors! Beautiful :)
Conni Schaftenaar
thanks to all who voted this to a 3rd place win in the No Cringe Zone Unique Art contest!