If you’re a faithful follower of the Insider, you’ve probably learned a few things about us by now.
We enjoy food, music and beer, while also lacking a certain set of skills necessary to succeed in the world of art. Sure, we take good pictures of other people’s work, but our own leaves something to be desired.
But since this is the public art issue and we do like to branch out from time to time (and give you something to laugh at), we decided to take a shot at the art of decoupage
What is decoupage? Well, we had no idea until we first visited The Place Studio & Gallery a few years back. Even then we only got a short explanation.
So we figured, since we’re not all that great at painting or pottery, granite work or welding, we figured why not give it a try.
Owner Christa Zuber told us that decoupage is a craft that originated in the 1970s. So unless you were part of that generation or had an art teacher growing up that was, chances are you were never introduced to it.
Basically, decoupage is when you take small pieces of paper and glue it to an object. The object could be a Christmas ornament, an animal, peace sign or garden gnome. It all depends on how in depth and difficult you want to make it.
Since this was our first time and because we’re not going to be known for our artwork anytime soon, we decided to go small.
Once we had our Christmas tree ornament picked out, it was time to choose some paper.
We settled on pages from a comic book called Plants vs. Zombies. It’s a comic book about plants taking on zombies, do we need to explain further?
And it’s not really the glue you’re thinking of. It’s actually called mod podge and is like glue, but made for decoupage.
There are a few ways to do it, but we just cut out a few strips of the comic and glued it down. Unfortunately we only got one side done, don’t worry though, we plan on finishing it one of these days.
It’ll have to be soon if we want to take advantage of the renovated North Main Street backdrop, because The Place is moving to the Concord Arts Center at the end of August.
There’s a $10 sitting fee for adults, $8 for students and $6 for children, plus the cost of the item you’ll be using for decoupage.
Check out theplaceconcord.wix.com/the-place for up-to-date hours.
