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CAROLE OVERALL
THE ART AND THE CREATOR OF “DecCoulage”©
Mission Statement: To imagine, create and share in the celebration with others the value and intoxicating investment of perpetuating fine art, color, light and beauty throughout time and space.
The art of “DecCoulage”©
began as an award-winning three dimensional watercolor collage technique created
and developed by watercolorist Carole Overall. The process consists of painting
an original watercolor using three pieces of watercolor paper, each spaced and
suspended three inches apart.
The first layer of Carole’s three-dimensional
paintings is painted images that are cut out and strategically suspended above
the primary painting. The primary, or middle painting, has images or areas cut
out of it to allow the viewer to see deep beyond to the third and final layer of
the painting. Viewers of her three-dimensional paintings are first captured and
then captivated while swimming in, out and through her work. See:
“Three-Dimensional Lilies”, “Something Fishy” and “Square Dancing”
in the Watercolor Gallery.
Carole felt proud of her three-dimensional
watercolors. However, she desired a way to create an internal light source to
illuminate the deeper dimensions of her work. Then a light bulb went on inside
her head. A lampshade wire frame would now support an “invisible blank
canvas”. Overall’s new pallet would now consist of colorful, sheer fabrics
and dramatic appliquéd fabric images accessorized with jewelry, tiny silk
flowers, glass beaded fringe, feathers and spangles and beads.
When completed, the synergistic light show
begins. The lamp’s light bulb becomes a dancing celestial projector beam,
cascading illuminating, animating colors and images upon and through gossamer
layers of sheer fabrics flowing through the artshade and into the room.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Carole Overall has been a watercolor artist
for over 30 years and a watercolor instructor for 12 years. An award-winning
artist, she is recognized by some of the Midwest’s most prestigious art
exhibitors. Her three-dimensional “DecCoulage’© illuminated artshade
technique is considered a new century fine art medium predicted to be validated
in time by similar works of future artists.
Overall’s creative endeavors take place in
her studio; FineArt Lampscapes and Watercolor. You may reach her via e-mail at carole@fineartlampscapes.com
or call her at (248)620-0125 or write her at:
FineArt Lampscapes
P.O. Box
202
Davisburg, MI 48350
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