Grid Collages

During the last week of the online collage composition class I recently took, we learned about and worked with grid style pieces.  These are the three pieces I created.

I really enjoyed making this one.  I like working in a grid that isn't too accurate. This piece contains some pressed botanical bits and some decorated paper/tea bags.

As always I struggle to decide what mat to put it in.   

This piece has grid elements, with  a photograph I took and some pressed botanical bits.

It is an 8X10 piece and at the moment I only have white mats in this size, so my decision was made for me. 

I didn't enjoy creating this more accurate grid piece.  Although I like the pieces I put in it, the pieces were too finnicky for me, and are not as straight as they could be. (but as straight as I am going to get them)

 

Again I struggled with choice of mat. 

Beauty in Botanicals

I love making accordian books.  I don't think I will ever tire of making them.

I made these two with bits of pressed flowers and leaves.  To me they are like a treasure when they are bound up with the ragged strip of fabric that I have attached to them. 

And when I open them there is more to discover.

Here is the second little treasure - closed

and opened.

Here is the backside when open...

and when closed.

A lovely little treasure that I enjoy so very much.

 

Collage Cards

I so enjoyed making these collages, and decided to make some cards out of them.

 

Here ae some images of the cards I have chosen to make. 

 

I decided to sell them in packages of 3 (of the buyers choice) in my Etsy Shop

Continuing On In Collage

It has been a challenging week, with just too many goodbyes.  As always creating helps me feel better.   Here are a couple of collages that I have created recently. 

The first is my Petal Person.  I used a copy of a face I painted some time ago, and then numerous pressed petals from a couple of different types of lilies  to create the person.  Dots and X are cut from paper.  I enjoyed making her, even though she was more difficult to make then what she looks like.  We had our struggles along the way. 

The second collage is House On The Shore.   It is made strictly from paper.

 

From tea bags and text covered pages. 

I then played with the colours of this one on my computer.

And tried them in various mats.

I always have a hard time choosing a mat, but do like how the creations look in them. 

Rocks and Botanical Bits

I have been playing with some rocks and botanical bits.

I love rocks on there own, and seem to be collecting many of them these days.  I also love botanical bits, and have been putting these two together (with bits of tea bags or old book page).

I love how they feel when I hold them.  Substantial, yet smooth, and if they have been in the sun they hold such warmth.

They stand at attention so nicely for me to take their pictures. 

This one got the special attention of an individual picture, as it is heading off to a new home tomorrow. 

I had such fun making these, and am sure there are more to come. 

Birds of a Feather

Some time ago I was asked to donate a piece of art to a fundraiser for breast cancer.  And this is what I made. 

The fundraiser is through the magazine Cloth Paper Scissors, and in this months magazine there is the above spread of artwork that gives information about it. If you look closely you can see my creation among the many lovely pieces. 

Here is a a picture of the full piece.  The bird part is created on a piece of matboard that is then mounted onto heavy watercolour paper. The bird is a drawing I did that I then transfered onto a tea bag and added bits of fabric, colour and textures too. 

   The items are for sale starting on August 28, through this website.  The fundraiser is through the National Breast Cancer Foundation. 

I didn't realize it at the time, but I used the same bird drawing on a piece I created this week. 

It was a fun piece I made for my collaging class (with Claudine Hellmuth)

Looks a bit like Super Bird to me.

Collage Again

This weeks lesson in collage was about vignettes. 

So I took a copy of a face I painted some time ago, and put it on a tea bag.  I then placed it on a page from an old book with elements both underneath the tea bag and on top. As seems to be in everything I work with  lately there are tea bags and botanical bits.

I then cropped the image on my computer and played....

Another fun project!