Well, after all our June rain Britain is very much a green and pleasant land, so to celebrate our beautiful countryside I thought I would try for a Green Man, which is a sculpture or drawing of a face surrounded by leaves. He is found on churches and other buildings and is a symbol of rebirth or renaissance. For some reason he is nearly always a man, green women are rare!
I started by embosssing my tag with a wood grain folder to represent the bark of a tree and coloured it with all the brown distress inks. After trying many forms I painted the green face with water colours onto cartridge paper and then adhered it to 'Clearly for Art' which is a marvelous material that you can heat and then shape, it gave his face some dimension.
Then I punched and die cut leaves from grungepaper and card from my stash, went mad with greeen paint, added angelina fibre and wool to his hair and painted his eyes with lumescent green paint to give him his stare! I then remembered some acrylic green leaf buttons I had stashed away so glued them on for extra depth. Fun to make, can't wait to see all your green contributions this week!
Thankyou all for your kind comments, I love reading them. Take care and have a good week, try and get out into the countryside or a park when you can! x
Love your green man! I have been painting a green man for some weeks now, but it is rather large and I am running out of patience! Love all the leaves on your piece, too! Valerie
ReplyDeleteInspired idea and a really cool tag.
ReplyDeleteThis is amazing Barb! He reminds me of Treebeard from LOTR with all his amazing leaves around :0)
ReplyDeleteI love your tag - what a great idea - I have a book about the green man, he's a fascinating character. You've really captured the theme this week beautifully.
ReplyDeleteI knew there would be lots of different takes on this weeks theme. Your green man is inspired. I love all the layering of leaves and twigs x
ReplyDeleteBrilliant Barb and I am impressed with all your techniques
ReplyDeleteLynn x
Great tag and love your green man. You have put lots into this and it shows! Carolyn x
ReplyDeleteHow cool! Love the leafy hair!
ReplyDeleteGreat 'Green Man' tag Barb with lots of lovely green bits and bobs :)
ReplyDeleteVery complex and playful.
ReplyDeleteGreat tag. I love all the layers of leaves.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous.. love the elements, texture/layers.. Brillant! May x
ReplyDeleteGreat Green Man tag! I almost made one as well, because we have a great pagan festival in our town every May, the Jack in the Green festival, when a huge figure covered in greenery ceremoniously gets killed to get rid off the winter and release the summer. You did such a great job on him, he is perfect!
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely character!
ReplyDeleteAnother unique and interesting tag Barb...your green man is fab! love all the assorted leaves and fibers...cool tag!
ReplyDeleteWow! He's so fantastic,especially the eyes. Blessings!
ReplyDeleteJust love your green man tag - such starey eyes. I fancy doing a green man embroidery especially now having seen the green men on tags this week, Jane xx
ReplyDeleteI like how you created your green man to make him 3d, I shall have to look out for that product.
ReplyDeleteI'm in love with his eyes! A super green man. Hugs Mrs A.
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