Well, I finally did something with all of my corks. This will be a gift for a lovely old friend of mine.
The Process:
I painted a wash with raw pigment and watercolor on a canvas that was backed with cork and foam board. Then I cut the red-wine stained end of my corks. The non-stained corks and stump corks were then cut in half with a serrated kitchen knife.
The pieces were then arranged and glued down with gorilla glue (big mistake...should have used normal glue...). I tried to mix the gorilla glue with raw pigment but things got out of control! Basically the glue started to bind to the pigment. Needless to say my idea of creating colored gorilla glue did not work.
So then I had to touch up areas where the glue expanded with paint and I also added gold mica flakes. I think I will add a border of corks around the edges of the canvas if I have enough left.
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