Tag: klimt

Peacock Box

  After I spent all that time painting the Adele Bauer-Bloch II project, I felt inspired by Klimt. I loved his gold upon gold layering, the bright colors, and especially the repeated patterns. Something made me think of peacocks, and peacock-inspired patterns. The eye shape of a peacock’s tail is very distinctive. The way it …

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Adele Bloch-Bauer 5 -Klimt Fanfic Project

A lot of people want to be Adele Bloch-Bauer II, but very few actually do anything about it. Despite it being so hot that I don’t want to go outside at all, I wanted to have my wall back even more, so I decided that this was the weekend to finish this project. Or, at …

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Adele Bloch-Bauer 4 –Klimt fanfic project

  I decided that since in theory someone may actually want to keep this painting when it’s done, I should make the face look like the real face and not like my placeholder. So I painted it white and started over. I also fixed the hands, which were missing some fingers. I had done a …

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Adele Bloch-Bauer 2 — Klimt fanfic project

  Here’s the second stage of the project. I had to put it on the wall, because I knew from experience that everything would be skewed if I painted it on a flat surface. I had to take down some pictures from the wall and move some furniture (like the water jug) to have enough …

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Adele Bloch-Bauer 1 –Klimt fanfic project

  I had this really cool idea, this grand plan.  I’d been thinking how this year I wanted to try to make a film, so I thought that a great subject for a film would be a film about me making something. I mean, most of my blog posts are about how I made something. …

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