Showing posts with label French Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label French Art. Show all posts

April 26, 2018

I Am Painting In The Spirit Of Rural France

 Artist
Dore Callaway
Burlap Luxe

 I Am Painting In The Spirit Of Rural France.

CYPRESS TREES
and...


 Inspiring French salvage surrounds me

 Roses
In old world tones, touched in distressing.
LUXE

 Vintage Linen
Mounted on an antique mahogany floor plank,
nailed in canvas wrapped style.
Tattered with tears and frayed edges, 
painted and sealed for an
heirloom feel.







 Process
Tattered and torn, adding all the rightness to an
aged feel.



 French Flea Market 
Style

 Dore Callaway
Artist
The writer of 
BurlapLuxe

 Soulfully Painted And Tattered In Age.
Earl Grey Roses





You Will Find My Art
Listed,
Burlap Luxe etsy Shop 
Linked Here...

You can FOLLOW me on Burlap Luxe Instagram
Inspiring salvage my home style and art.
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March 29, 2018

French Cottage Spirit

 Burlap Luxe Home Style
Designer/Artiste

Living with a salvaged past and
creating in the French cottage spirit.


A salvaged French 
lantern. 
Decayed and weathered from the
seaside, and purchased from a California, Malibu
cliff-side home remodel.
This exterior veranda lantern, took on years of
sea wash that only a sea breeze and mist
can create rustically.
  

Artist Dore Callaway
The writer of Burlap Luxe

Painting on salvaged antique mahogany floor
planks.
Vintage linen is mounted and canvas nailed
to the wood plank, then painted in an aged
style of intrigue.


Artist Dore (me) signed,
Callaway


Each linen painting is purposefully tattered,
torn, and frayed. Adding all the rightness
to the look and feel of French cottage
spirit.
  

Tattered


Frayed


Relaxed in romance, where graceful age is
painted.


 I will have 17 linen paintings,
the number of salvaged planks.

Listed soon in my online shop,
etsy.






My home that acts as a studio
 muse that inspires

Shop linked here...

Would love to share with you, 
Burlap Luxe
Home and Art

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March 08, 2015

L' Art du Cartapesta, Papier-Mache My Art Studio Designs

Burlap Luxe Home, and my art in Cartapesta.

I design around the patina dusting of paper mache. Its the
closest description in reference to my art and homes
colour scheme.
 I pay careful attention to the smallest of details where the
end result calls out with a nudge to be noticed.

Chair painted by Dore (Me)
Followed by...
My latest ART pieces I have created for my etsy shop Burlap Luxe.

 I live in the light and dark of my art where my soul is deepened
with creative emotions.
I work so intensely in many mediums finding myself with a deep connection to
each piece. So much so, I have an emotional weeping attachment upon
it's completion; "it's who I am as an artist."
  
I use natural and recycled materials such as in the following pieces of Cartapesta (Paper-Mache)
I work in mixed media, altered art and fiber materials creating objects in paper-mache.
My altered artistic identity allows me to create from my imagination in soulful
 peace.

My bottle art is added to this wall pocket roadside angel shrine...
 where flowers in a vase may be left.

 The backside of my art is where you often will find the surprise of vintage French
 book page ephemera.

 While creating in fiber art and paper-mache, I am quieted with any chaotic thoughts other
then the thoughts in how it will turn out.
 
 Molded Papier-Mache art objects were first made in France in the 
early part of the 18th century, and later, in Germany and England.
Paper-Mache is still ever so popular with collectors.

13" 1/2 x 10" 1/2
 
 I cast molds and shapes from pieces that move me in the direction of art,
and I create to appear to have a little damage to each piece.

 Papier-Mache define from French, literally: chewed paper.
I find such peace in creating with paper. These two wall pockets, or
prayer pocket vessels are found wall mounted where one can leave their
prayers or tokens such as dried flowers, feathers, or poetic
gatherings.

The creator in me listens to each piece telling me what it wants to
become, and when it is completed.

 Artist Creator, Dore Callaway
Each piece is made of paper and added materials that I find appealing or
inspiring.
The cast and molded piece in paper is layered on a French book cover tattered
with age. The roses are shaped by my hands and applied with plaster coatings aging
the piece to a desired look and feel of what may have been found in the 
17th~18th century France.

 Patina of old...
 Artist painted by Dore (Me)
 Soulful gatherings in the vessels pocket.

 This is the part of my art I love best, its all in the finished piece.
6" x 8" 1/2

 The French wall pocket vessels are mounted securely on old
salvaged wood, with a wire hanger to hang it from.

  Tattered cloth scrap and a paper tag that reads..."Comfort."
                                   Hand sculpted roses by Dore (Me) Aged with a decayed feel of old.

 Tattered fiber edges add emotion to its strength.
May you find comfort.

Source...Via 1stdibs
(Not my work of art)

This pair of 18th century papier-mache angels offered by Skelton-ST John at 1stdibs.
Cartapesta papier-mache angels for...
$1,800

Creating lies within me, how I create is in my imagination.
Soon to be listed in my etsy shop.

Thank you for allowing me to share a deeper side of my art.
All my pieces here are original to my art designs, and are
one-of-a-kind!
xx
Dore