For Valentine's Day I wanted to get John a Sunday newspaper subscription. We haven't gotten the paper since we've lived in the new house and I thought it would be nice for us to just hang out on Sunday morning, reading the paper and drinking coffee. But I didn't think that handing him a rolled up newspaper was very romantic so I created a piece of art for him that was representative of his gift.
I just used a piece of thin plywood and painted it white. Then I glued on the newspaper parts and painted the shading and details over top.
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I forgot to take a close-up picture of the bottom right. But I cut out individual letters from the paper to spell out "love, paige". And right below that is the date that I created it (February 13th, 2009) taken right from the top of the paper.
Here's a close-up of the rolled up paper
I looked for an article that had a "fine art" theme as opposed to something depressing about the economy or a robbery. This one happened to be about a musical in Omaha called "Swing Swing". I just picked words that I liked and put them on randomly.
This took me about 2.5-3 hours. If I had more time I probably would have added more detail. But it got my point across and John likes it : )