We were gone, gone, gone in the Spring.
We love to travel and had lots of opportunity this year.
When we travel, I love to collect newspapers in the language of wherever we are visiting.
This year I came home with Arabic, Portuguese and Spanish.
I either paint these for collage or use them plain in my collages.
(If anyone has a suggestion for keeping papers for collage neatly, I am open to suggestions)
This past month we were in New Mexico for my grandson's high school graduation
I LOVE New Mexico, the diversity of the people, the wonderful scenery, the gorgeous native jewelry and the food! We were only there 5 days but I inhaled it all.
I am back in an art class at our local Art Center.
We are working large this time. The canvas below is 24" x 40"
I incorporated some bits of newspaper
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| "Noticias" Our instructor has shared lots of tips for helping with the dreaded white sheet. Last week we put 11 dots on our paper and connected them until we were satisfied and then colored them in with crayons. The assignment was to take them home and put them on watercolor paper. I didn't have any and didn't want to go to the store so I used an old failed painting. As it turned out, I was then able to scratch through and access the old colors from the original piece. I am glad I made that decision. Here are the results. |
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| charcoal and crayon |
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| Acrylic |
Wishing all a Happy PPF
14 comments:
Wonderful creativity this week!
Hi Susan, glad you enjoyed your vacation, welcome back! Love your art today. Happy PPF, hugs, Valerie
How wonderful to be able to do such travelling! Love your collage art and the second project is pretty cool looking too. Happy PPF!
That acryllic is so ... so.... well, no word describes it. Just so colorful and fun.
Welcome back! Fabulous art this week!
I love the acrylic version of the chalk one - so vibrant and the vintage background is really textured and lovely. Happy PPF from Number 20 :D
I love that first canvas! It reminds me a bit of the collages of Jane Davies. Lovely work!
Super art
Very interesting creative exercises - your art pieces are just lovely!! I used to keep a plastic file box on the floor between my chair and the wall and had my collage papers in there. But in the heat of a creative session it still became a mess! lol I also have some in a zip up accordion file. It's so full its HEAVY! Need to throw a bunch out I guess!
Love that first one! How wonderful to have the newspapers from other countries to use!
Luv the last piece best
much love...
Thank you! I hadn't thought of a zip bag.
We moved to CO and the weather goes from 50 to 100 in a day!
I too love the first art work, to the point of imagining making one like it on fabric, not that I'm a copier lol. I'll imagine it but not do it but I like the top, where the words overlap the open circles.
Thank you! I would love to see your results. This is a large piece, 24"x40". There is no such thing as an "original" idea. They are all our interpretations of something we have seen.
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