Catching My Sweetheart

"Catching My Sweetheart" is a mixed media art sculpture by Sherry Candy Lane.
It measures 24" high x 9" wide & 9" deep. Types of materials include wood, fabric, thread, wire, metal, cardstock, and plastic.

Sherry has interpreted some of the fragments of her new love's catch, in a very whimsical way. In the mid-60's, she found 'him', and through this art expression she expresses the Sweetheart game that brought them together. Some of the "game pieces" include a carrot, butterflies, rainbows, lion, fruit, chair, bell, crochet 'fishing' rod, a shoe-print tie, an Indiana Jones character to represent her Love, miniature champayne buckets, a 'CANDY' (her maiden name) mini-license plate, silver shoe, a magnetic word 'summer', glitter, fairy wings, green plastic line....and a 1980's card titled 'GOT TO GET YOU INTO MY LIFE' and more.

A cutout circle door brags an offset 'CD' ...which picks up the light & emits iridescent light streams. The base is a 1960's fruit pedestal turned upside down. It supports the fanciful paisley print cardboard box (Enchanted trap). A dangling carrot from crochet 'fishing' rod hangs out for bait. Her love will be charmed by the wooden Lion, since he is a Leo. Butterflies, rainbows, fairy wings lure. Colorful spools of thread symbolize the beginning of a beautiful tapestry. The chair predicts a home together. A tiny game block means children in the future. A pin shaped into a paint tin titled 'ROSE' weights down 'the sweetheart' fabric tag (from a pair of GAP) denims. A wooden PuddleJUmper game piece stretches vertically above the spools, giving structure to the sculpture.

BIRDNAP

Mixed Media artpiece by Sherry Candy Lane..This whimsical BirdNap pose began with the wooden chubby green & brown bird sculpture. It measures 15" high. Vivid oranges & greens unify the work. Included in the piece: ribbon, yarn, laminated colorful varieties of birds, floral embellishments, iridescent fabric, a ball of embroidery thread, pipe cleaners, mini bird nest, bejeweled plastic bird, "SMALL" clothing tag used as a crown, & a cluster of red miniature easter flowers.

Six birds are in this whimsical scene.

BIRDNAP by Sherry Candy Lane (c)2009

Little Leapin' Leprechaun

Inspired by a 1980's card illustration--a curious-looking leprechaun atop a bold-looking blue frog in a woodsy setting...Sherry Candy Lane created this unique glass & metal lidded container forest shadowbox/mixed media artpiece.

Glass Shadowbox/Mixed Media artpiece measures 6" wide x 9" high. Composed of: 3" round glass magnifier tool, plastic turtle & frog, polished pebbles, blue glass knob from anthropologie, cork pedestal, glitter, 1980's card illustration, green floral wire, silk bluebell, 1 yellow & black plastic eye,earring prisms, 2 'lucky brand' four leaf clover metal pins.

Blue Frog, magnified on top of pebbles echo the grand blue bullfrog on the card. Green glitter embellishment adds to the whimsy of the curious little faerie man.

Created Winter of 09.