Friday, October 10, 2008

Word Blocks

Before I felt brave enough to ask Becky for help with vinyl lettering I made these blocks. I love Norman Rockwell pictures and I have a ledge with a few of his more political prints. I bought them for 50cents(I think) each at his museum in Massachussets. I got frames from Wal-mart for cheap. Then the blocks I got from the Syracuse/Clearfield free wood pile (where did that go anyway). Then I used craft paint. I modge podged letters that I cut out while visiting my mom in Illinois. It was a free little accent to my very cheap pictures. I like them a lot.
This is a series of "The Four Freedoms" I think it was Roosevelt who gave a speech on how every person deserved four freedoms...the freedom from fear, the freedom of religion, the freedom of speech and the freedom from want. It is very interesting to learn about Rockwell's struggle with painting these pictures. I know that he had divine guidance on many of his paintings. I took this off the ledge to take the picture.

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