Cute little coffins 10/30/2011
While shopping at a Michaels Arts and Craft store a few weeks back I found some cute little unfinished wooden coffins. Very inexpensive. Probably made by the thin fingers of small children in China. I had to get some. I would decorate them with such brilliantly dark whimsey, they would fly off my gallery's shelf. I wanted to do something with Edgar Allen Poe. Poe and Halloween, what could be better? So I found a suitable image of Poe and made a visit to Dr. Photoshop. A few days later I had my coffins finished. Paint dry, glue set. I decided to see if any other artist had the same stroke of genius...., so I took at peek at Etsy. Etsy is a giant site where folks go to sell arts/craft, vintage type stuff. (Sort of a kinder, gentler, eBAy,..but without the auction part.) I put "little wood coffin" in the search. Apparently Micheal's did a brisk business in those stupid caskets. There must have been a zillion of them. Some even more clever than mine!! Many even had the same picture of Poe. In fact there seems to be only one in photograph of Poe in the public domain. It was taken not too long before he died. At age 40. At least my coffins are the only ones I saw that had an old key inside and magnet stuff glued to the back, allowing for a tasteful refrigerator display. Alas  CommentsLeave a Reply |
