Artful keepsakes.. 15th century appeal...

"That which you elect to surround yourself with

becomes the museum of your soul and the archive of your experiences."

By Thomas Jefferson..

What do you surround yourself with??

These scrolls are created using photographs.. What makes

them come alive is the printing and glazing process..

The process is one dating from the 15th century, when most oil paintings

were composed of an underpainting and then layers of glazes and scrumbles were applied. Glazing is the

process by which a transparent layer of paint is applied

over either a color or a monochromatic ground. Light is then

reflected by the undersurface and modified by the glaze.

As you can see below it gives the image a heighten luster..

Scrolls can be hung from decorative bars..

or

displayed in shadow boxes..

Here's a scroll I'm working on right now..

A Japanese cut leaf maple from my front yard that

seems to transform itself every minute of the day..

Voila...

so..

find that image that

you so cherish and send it to me so we can

make it

even more special..