Trees...Trees....Trees...

I continue to play with trees 

mixed with a variety of mediums....

acrylic paint, pastels, charcoal, graphite, ink, collage,

and whatever else is laying around on my desk. 

It is my favourite way to create.... or at least at the moment.

I then mounted them onto small wooden cradled panels.

Prayer Flags on Earth Day

It is Earth Day today. 

I try to connect with nature daily. 

I know I need this to feel whole. 

What I create often has a connection to nature 

and it made me happy when prayer flags also showed up on this piece. 

My Prayer Flag creation was made by collaging bits of decorated paper, 

adding bits of my photographs 

and adding layers of paint, pen, ink, pastel, graphite 

and whatever else was close by. 

The image below is a computer manipulated version of the original creation. 

 "In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."

                                                                            - Aristotle

Mixed Media Play

I am back to playing with
 little bits of paper 
that I add to with paint and pastel and ink and graphite 

or whatever else is within reach. 

True mixed media pieces that I am loving playing with. 

And once I finished playing with the messy supplies,

I played some more on my computer. 

 

Storytelling With Collage

This new book,

Storytelling with Collage by Roxanne Evans Stout,

arrived at my house this week

and I am leisurely enjoying every page and story. 

Roxanne shares so much in this beautiful book 

with lots of her beautiful images, words

and inspiration for creative endeavours. 

She also includes many works by collage artists.

I am so thrilled and honoured to have my work included in this beautiful book. 

Bookmaking Binge

Since I made hard covered journal style books in a book making workshop 

just over a month ago, I have been wanting to make more of 

these type of books.

And I finally had some time to do that

Below are images of the three hard covered journals I recently finished.

These books are about 6.5 X 10 inches when closed  - pages about 12 X 9.5 inches when open

The inside pages are made with watercolour paper

and can be painted on, glued onto, or drawn onto with a variety of mediums.

The outside covers are decorated with paint and ink as well as paper I decorated, 

and copies of my drawings or photographs .

I am now finishing up some small books that I hope to share soon.

A definite bookmaking binge!