Homage to Fornasetti: a spread in my Hands AB

This is the post I had planned for yesterday, then I got all caught up posting those fun giveaways. I hope everyone had a fun time with it, and thought it was a nice change of pace.

One of my favorite artists is Piero Fornasetti, the Italian painter and interior decorator. He is probably best known to altered artists for his engravings, specifically the woman who it seems every rubber stamp company copies. Fornasetti created more than 500 variations on the face of opera singer Lina Cavalieri, whose picture he found in a 19th century magazine. You can see his son's web site and read about Fornasetti here.

I used my large face stamp as a background, but I never quite got a good image. It's hard to tell there are 8 faces on the pages, especially since the book doesn't fit on the scanner. After I stamped the images on the wonderful paper that was light as air, I adhered it to the book. I added a Fornasetti image to the left side, then a thumbs up, thumbs down image that I stamped one of Lina's eyes in white on the right. It was the closest image I had that could compliment the real Fornasetti. I call this two page spread Homage to Fornasetti.