Journey into Collage – Week 2

Here’s the next page in my book:

And this one was really meant to be homework for my I Heart Drawing class. It was to practice drawing hands. I did my journaling inside her dress. All of her is painted except for the balloons which are from Pink Paislee tissue paper.

even less collage-y. ugh. i know.

Journey into Collage is a project for 2012. You can read more about it here.

January 13, 2012 | Art, Collage, Mixed Media | 10 comments

Journey into Collage – Week 1

Well here we go. I’ve started working on this project but I still don’t know how I feel about it. Some weeks are going to end up more mixed media and less paper. Others…oh I have no idea. I am taking it one day at a time and doing whatever makes me happy. I don’t have any collage elements and I need to work on that. Anyhow, for now, I will share one page at a time and let’s see how this thing goes.

Here is the first page in my book:

The background of this one is just Tim’s tape and then the black circles on the bottom is a stamp. The other little ones are punched out of Margie’s papers with a little clock rubon from Maya Road. The big butterfly on the right is a chipboard one I covered with blue tissue tape. The rest is paint.

That’s it for this week. Not so much collage, I know….

Journey into Collage is a project for 2012. You can read more about it here.

January 6, 2012 | Art, Collage, Mixed Media | 34 comments

2012 Projects – Journey into Collage

Another brand new project I am trying to tackle for 2012 is called Journey into Collage.

I will admit that I am super-scared even at the idea of collage. Especially when I see the works of Teesha Moore. Most of the collage I’ve seen uses magazines and I don’t have any magazines. I mean none. And I have no intention of getting them. I also don’t believe I am creative enough to make something so unique like she does.

So, even though I’ve considered it on and off, I’ve never really tackled collage. I couldn’t even really define it for you. I just decided somewhere along the line that it wasn’t something I could ever really do.

But then Donna Downey started posting her Collage Monday creations and suddenly it looked fun. It looked like something I might want to tackle, play around with, experiment with. Without buying magazines. Maybe using my scrappy and mixed media stash.

I’m not entirely sure how it’s going to work out, to be honest.

And I’ll be even more honest and tell you I might walk away from this one entirely.

But I am going to give it a try. I’ve already started a Pinterest Board with inspiration. I will be using a Moleskine sketchbook and just taking it one step at a time.

The goals are:
1. Experiment with paper-based collage – see if it’s something I enjoy
2. Find a way to make it meaningful for me
3. Create one page a week.
4. Try different mediums, textures and styles
5. Find a collection of artists who inspire me and whose work I might want to emulate as a starting point

There you go. Pretty simple I know but this one scares me quite a bit.

If you know any collage artists that you like I’d love for you to leave a comment so I can compile a list.

December 15, 2011 | Art, Collage, Yearly Projects | 42 comments

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