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March 22, 2012
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These are more shots of my 1850s "box" project on Herman Melville's Moby Dick.

I handmade the box (cut and glued the chipboard together then covered it with book cloth, mi tientes paper that I stained w/coffee, watercolor paper that I painted w/Windsor & Newton watercolors and then sprinkled with sea salt for textural effects, and lastly a vintage world map I got at Art Supply Warehouse.)

The shadowbox illustration is all my own original artwork created with watercolor, micron pen, embroidery floss, transparent jewelry cord, tape, glue, puffy stickers, and a mini ship that I hand carved from cork, painted, etc. (I have a separate deviation for it here: [link])

Omg what an endeavor this project was. Hours beyond hours in creating it, luckily we were given 2 months from start to finish. My teacher was very pleased and gave me an A. I am super uber proud of it, as well.

Link to my portrait of Herman Melville, the author of Moby Dick: [link]
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The suggester said: Not only is the box handmade, all the illustrations are done by the artist as well, I love this box! Moby Dick Shadowbox by ~Groovygirlsuzy17 ( Suggested by =PattiPix and Featured by ^Astralseed )
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*JessaFlux Apr 29, 2013   Photographer
How utterly cool. It certainly is a different art medium. How long did it take you to make?
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~Groovygirlsuzy17 May 13, 2013  Student General Artist
Hm...not entirely sure. I worked on it here and there over a three month span. The ship alone took me about 6 hours. The box another 3. I estimate the total project to be around 30 hours
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*JessaFlux 5 days ago   Photographer
Well at $10 an hour that should make it worth $3,000. What do you sell such things for?
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~Groovygirlsuzy17 4 days ago  Student General Artist
I would never sell the original of this...but I would of course sell prints for around $15+
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~Dalliann Mar 18, 2013
This is gorgeous-- and one of the most original shadow-boxes I've seen! What a wonderful surprise for anyone who opens that front cover! :heart:
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~Groovygirlsuzy17 Mar 25, 2013  Student General Artist
Wow thank you! :)
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*simoneheld Mar 3, 2013
just truly epic :worship:! A real masterpiece! Love it!
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~Groovygirlsuzy17 Mar 25, 2013  Student General Artist
Thanks!
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~daaash Mar 1, 2013  Student Digital Artist
this is really beautiful! congrats
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~Groovygirlsuzy17 Mar 25, 2013  Student General Artist
Thank you!
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