I love you to the moon and Back. (paper mache on wood)

Playing around with paper mache, wood, colors and a lot of glue!

My last mamas and babies.
They are available in my Etsy shop.
Laura ETSY

Some photos of the process :

Let me love you before you're not little anymore.

Exploring new techniques (mixing paper mache with wood and acrylics) while going back to my favorite quote and painting my favorite theme.

Let me love you a little more before you're not little anymore.

Here is you can see all the process behind the pieces .

 

They will be soon available in my Etsy store, if you interested in a personalized piece just drop me a message !

And they finally arrived.

They finally arrived.

The Wizard of OZ.

B-girl.

Here is my last commissioned illustration:

B-girl.

8.4x11 inches

digital painting

Little Red, book cover.

I am so happy on how this book cover turned out!

Looking forward to shoe more pages of this book :)

(The three stars will be a die cut, so you will see through the next page)

7x7 inches

Little Red

digital painting

Dorothy and the Wicked Witch.

Adding another illustration to my Wizard of OZ series.

8.5x11 inches

digital painting.

"... Now the Wicked Witch had a great longing to have for her own the Silver Shoes which the girl always wore. Her bees and her crows and her wolves were lying in heaps and drying up, and she had used up all the power of the Golden Cap; but if she could only get hold of the Silver Shoes, they would give her more power than all the other things she had lost. She watched Dorothy carefully, to see if she ever took off her shoes, thinking she might steal them. But the child was so proud of her pretty shoes that she never took them off except at night and when she took her bath. The Witch was too much afraid of the dark to dare go in Dorothy's room at night to take the shoes, and her dread of water was greater than her fear of the dark, so she never came near when Dorothy was bathing. Indeed, the old Witch never touched water, nor ever let water touch her in any way...."

Together we have it all.

Here is my last commissioned illustration:

Together we have it all.

8.5x 11 inches

I love you to the moon and back.

I love you to the moon and back...i truly love this quote.
Me and my little one are saying this a lot this days and I wanted to create a little artwork to remember this sweet time of our life .
He is so funny, he always tells me " I love you to the moon and back and again and back and again and to Italy too and again!"

I have been working on this for past week after his bedtime and now is ready ...i love the moment I get to glue all the part together and what was only in mind is actually there, ready to be hanged up and touched.

I am posting some images of the work in progress:
(material: little brown drawer -a lucky found on the street!-, paper macher for mom and baby and moon, modeling paste for the stars, and lots of glue!)


PS. We dont  have this saying back in Italy so I have never heard it while growing up ;)