Lazy Afternoon Note Cards

Lazy Afternoon, 24x20, collage on panel ©St.Hilaire Nelson
This is one of my most recent and favorite cows! Currently on display at the Katharine Butler Gallery in Sarasota, the original is framed in reclaimed barn wood.

These cards are in a clear box with a stretchy silver ribbon/tie, they make a nice gift for yourself or a friend!

Day Two

How Now Brown Cow?

Here is day two on the cow front. I have started to fill in the cow face and nose, which is my favorite part next to the eyes. The nose has been totally created from handmade paper by local artist Judith Segal. Her paper has such wonderful bumpy texture with bits and scraps of glitter and lint and colors, it's perfect! My next post will show a closeup larger photo of this and other highly textured areas, per a great suggestion by WW.

Building the whites with magazine print, book print, old book print, maps and Connor's workbook pages is a challenge in creating highlight with bright white paper, and shading around the side of the face to a more yellow white, which is old book pages. Keeping in mind all the while that the glue darkens some papers more than others.