Melted Clegg

I have now started to use metal plates to do my work on. I looked at a video with Nick Clegg on the internet and printed an image of it from his party conference. I used this image for my metal plate. I have to take more care using it since it would burn the mediums much faster.

I used melted crayons mixed with linseed oil to make this. I found it very interesting of when I melted the layers from the bottom with seep onto the upper layers of paint. I then took this futher and put it into a photo-frame.

Unfortunately  the metal plate wouldn't stay in the frame and kept falling to the bottom. To solve this I used a metal filer to scrape the back part of the metal surface. Then I used glue on the scraped parts and stuck it with the paper. This solved the problem it the metal falling. I then added a text underneath saying 

"Lead Britain forward, while voting Clegg"

This looks more like a prime minister portrait to the ones you see in downing street.