The Gazeball's Garden Print

The Gazeball’s Garden My wife’s kids got together to buy her a mosaic glass gazeball, a family treasure. It is perched atop a metal ring supported by the arms of three rust-stained, sheet metal faeries. It is surrounded by summer blooms including Cosmos, blanket flowers, and orange blooms from the wildflower packet that I sewed that spring. The blanket flowers in the left foreground are attended by bees mining for pollen. I worked from three photos that focused on elements at differing focal distances, here rendered into a single perspective. The large object at the upper right is a nascent Cosmo bud in extreme close-up, whose stem winds in and out of the right margin and whose fronds reach out to the gazeball. The faint outlines of the distant San Juan Mountains can be seen in the background. The sun strikes the upper left quadrant of the gazeball and its rays shine through the center to illuminate the bottom right. I used smooth 300lb paper. I applied vibrant hues in overlapping colors to the gazeball and then worked with sharp blades to expose layers and to ignite the light radiating from within. I detailed the gazeball almost to the level of individual mosaic pieces, picked out by scratched-in glints in the upper hemisphere and painted dark ridges below.

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:8 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:13.25 W x 15.25 H x 1.2 D in

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