Lucille Ball

I had stumbled across this photo and totally fell in love. I adore the obvious concept  of the modernized Lucille Ball.  

I used a wooden plaque from Michael's and had bought fluorescent paint (the purple). 

For the circles, I used the bottom of a glue stick! I like to use tools rather than freehand.

For the quote, I bought Tim Holtz's card stock paper  and cut them into pieces. I bought normal font stamps, again from Michael's. I gave the words an aged look with Tim Holtz's Distress Inks and Ink Stamper. I watched a few youtube videos on this technique and got the hang of it pretty quickly.

I felt like the plaque needed more pop of color than the dripping purple and purple circles so I painted a tear drop (which seemed fitting to me because that is the vision I get from her in this photo) and painted on smeared red lipstick, as if she was under stress.

I am a huge fan of her show and naturally when my interest is sparked in anything, I read about it for hours. Over the years I have done a lot of research on her, her husband and her career.

I read  about her tumultuous relationship with Desi Arnaz and this quote came to mind.

"The people you love become ghosts inside of you, and like this you keep them alive."

Even though they were divorced 20 years at the time of Desi's death, Lucille is quoted saying how much she always has and always will love him. I think this quite moving quote fitted this photo of her very well.