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Big frame, no budget!


  
As of right now I have pretty much zero money.  I am starting to scour my home for things to do.  I don't usually like to get too personal, but I currently do not have a job and don't qualify for unemployment.  Believe me, I am looking.  So, I am asking if anyone is out there, let me know if you have any items that you would like to give new life to.  I will continue to create things every day no matter what even if I have to paint the kitchen sink. 

OK, enough with the sob story and on to today's creative endeavour.  This frame is 18 x 24 and was something that I got a while ago at the Goodwill for 1.49.  It was plain white and the artwork was old and dated.  Purple was the color chosen to repaint the frame.  Now for the really challenging part, I don't have any paper that large, but I wanted to do a cool drawing.  What I ended up doing was taping a few pieces of paper together for my base design, it didn't have to look pretty.  I drew a design using some stencils that I cut out and then outlined it in marker for ease of tracing it later.  Here is the tricky/creative part.  On the finished piece of art the patchwork paper wouldn't look good, but if I made small 'tiles' and made a border around them, it would be intentional and it would work.  After I meticulously drew the tiles, it was time to assemble it.  Another issue, no large paper no large mat, SOLUTION!  I flipped the original artwork that was mounted on foam core and using red duct tape, made my borders.  Duct tape such a wonderful thing!  After that, I just attached the tiles and the rest is history.  This is definitely one of my favorites so far.
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