Mary Ann Russo Brings Her Talent to Huber Woods Environmental Center!

Mary Ann Russo recently began working at Huber Woods Environmental Center in Middletown, NJ -- and brought along her creative ideas.

One result of Mary Ann's two recent outstanding works appears below; but the white circle is something I've added, just for today's post....

Photo by Mary Ann Russo

In times long gone, people were punished by having their heads placed in "the stocks"  --

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Happily, stocks are no longer used as punishment!  But the basic idea has remained with us, morphed into something much more pleasant.  At carnivals and many other venues of entertainment, kids and adults can find today's benign version -- life-size paintings (usually of people) with holes cut out for faces.  

And this is the reason Mary Ann's scarecrow painting has no faces!  

They are about to become holes so that Huber Woods visitors can enjoy sticking their heads thru the holes and having their photos taken.

In Mary Ann's photo crowning this post, I've added a white circle to draw attention to this detail on the smaller scarecrow --

Mary Ann describes her process:  "First I painted the background patch pink, then attached the stencil with masking tape and dabbed in the green through the stencil and dried it with a hair dryer. Then I repositioned the stencil (offset it) and dabbed in the red using a sea sponge. On the scarecrow clothing it looks like a real fabric patch."
Mary Ann delighted me by using one of my "trivet" series of stencils to create this knee-patch -- 6" x 6" Trivet A.

Trivet A 6" x 6"

This trivet also comes in a 9" x 12" version --

Trivet A 9 Stencil (9" x 12")

Mary Ann created yet another board just as wonderful as the one shown at the top of this post!  Here is that second board --

Photo by Mary Ann Russo

You can click on the above image to better see details of the clever ways Mary Ann used stencils ... or just keep scrolling down ....

Above:  This scarecrow's patch was made with my 6" x 6" stencil Marbles. It appears below:

This scarecrow's patch was made with my 6" x 6" Swatton Grid Stencil.  It appears below:

To scroll thru the pages of my StencilGirl stencils -- including the trivet series -- please start here.

My hearty thanks to Mary Ann Russo for allowing me to post her artwork here!

And thanks to everyone stopping by this blog today!