Third Post WHEW!

Tried and tried to post to my blog, and lacked the skill/knowledge to set it up to post...previous efforts happened without my learning anything about how to do it. Anyway, I know now to go to the top line and hit createpost. My God..each piece of info is really hard won. Anyway, I am working still with paper and collage and after thinking about the last piece, I decided to return to the source...the source within myself. So, I drew on scratch paper some lady figure that I have always drawn. I gave her some slight differences and then cut them all out and began to arrange them. I like the arranging part, so I copied all 5 of them so I could have more without more drawing. Haven't cut them out yet. My plan is the make them a little thicker by painting them and then arrange them on a surface. Then, I will gold leaf over all of them and glaze the leaf to pick up the edges of the figures. Then, I will age the leaf with vinegar and salt, bleach, etc. Probably paint into it (maybe) Because I now own copies of the figures, I can make multiples and really push the surface stuff into a mess if I want to. Of course, I could always draw more, but I am more interested in the surface and what I can do with it so I want to spend my time with that. Faux never dies! You can take the painter out of the faux but you can't take the faux out of the painter. Any other euphamisms also apply here. Well, more later because now I know I can.