<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1850912775265944490.post-1150825604308593725</id><published>2009-04-21T11:00:00.003Z</published><updated>2009-04-21T11:11:32.612Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='collage'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paper'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='acrylic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SF'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='varnish'/><title type='text'>Criticism</title><content type='html'>This is a collage piece I made for the Eastercon art show, pretty much entirely as an experiment.  It's one of my favourite SF short stories, &lt;em&gt;Omnilingual&lt;/em&gt; by H Beam Piper (&lt;a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/19445"&gt;Project Gutenberg link&lt;/a&gt;) done using your basic papier-mache technique on a Daler board base.  The discolouration is done with two layers of tinted glaze (gold, then brown) and edged with black acrylic.  I'm quite pleased with the result, and I think I'll have to do some more of these in the future.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravenmagic/3458606583/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3483/3458606583_c969d7a6c5.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="Omnilingual collage" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1850912775265944490-1150825604308593725?l=www.eithin.co.uk' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1850912775265944490/1150825604308593725/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1850912775265944490&amp;postID=1150825604308593725' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1850912775265944490/posts/default/1150825604308593725'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1850912775265944490/posts/default/1150825604308593725'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.eithin.co.uk/2009/04/criticism.html' title='Criticism'/><author><name>Sam</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16882025740447744451</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='06421727152863054962'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry>