Papilo by Lesley

Helloooooo, Lesley here with an assemblage for you..........

I started this piece with an idea in my head.........and it turned out absolutely nada like i had envisaged! Something i do all the time!

The main block is two small cubes glued together which were given a coat of white gesso. Torn up bits of text tissue paper were randomly glued on, and i then gave it a wash of watered down black paint. 

Using watered down red paint, i let it dribble down all four sides of the block. 

Whilst making this piece, i was clearing out my book case and came across some school books, and found an English piece i had written about H.G.Wells and his work entitled The Wonderful Visit. My block then needed to have butterflies on it! I actually ended up writing a snippet from the piece around the sides of the cube, which you can just about see in the pics. 

I used the flora and fauna pieces with cabbage flowers and butterflies on three sides of the cubes.

I added some painted metal flowers and little legs. 

A porcelain arm was glued to one side with rusty wire and a painted butterfly added. 

I glued a mini plaque to the front and stamped the word "papilo" which means butterfly in Latin.

The top bit is actually a wooden table i pinched from my twins dolls house! This was painted and the top embossed. I added some moss and a couple of the mini butterflies and some more rusty wire. 

Thanks so much for reading. 

L.x

Ingredients used.

Flora and fauna cabbage flowers

Artist trading block cube kit, small

Mini butterfly shapes

Notched rectangle mini plaques