One of the many things that my lovely partner Marie Bertin
and I have in common is our love of octopuses, especially those giant ones of
nautical mythology that were said to attack sailing ships in attempts to drag
them down to the ocean deep. Marie also makes small, often origami-inspired, jewellery
and sculptural pieces from paper so I thought I’d make her this three
dimensional decoupage painting on paper (well, on thick mount card to be
precise).
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| 'Kraken Attack', 2023, acrylic decoupage painting by Wayne Chisnall |
The finished piece you see here is actually the inner box
section before the glass and outer frame were added. I photographed it without
the frame so as not to get reflections from the glass.
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| 'Kraken Attack', 2023, acrylic decoupage painting by Wayne Chisnall |
As you can see from the photos I made this small piece by
painting it in four separate elements and cutting them out by hand, before
assembling them as a 3D decoupage. Cutting the elements out with a scalpel
proved both fiddley and time consuming so I’m glad I went for a modern take on
the sea monster legend, and didn’t go with an old time sailing vessel with lots
of sails and fiddley rigging to cut out.
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| 'Kraken Attack (work-in-progress)', 2023, acrylic decoupage painting by Wayne Chisnall |
I was partly inspired by a memory of those old theatre sets
where they have multiple layers of cut-out depictions of water than are moved
back and forth on stage to the give the impression of lapping waves, moving on the
ocean’s surface. Although, to be more precise, it’ll be my memories of movie
and TV depictions of those stage sets.
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| 'Kraken Attack (work-in-progress)', 2023, acrylic decoupage painting by Wayne Chisnall |
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'Kraken Attack (work-in-progress)', 2023, acrylic decoupage painting by Wayne Chisnall
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