Collage

I used to do a lot of collage. I've been doing more jewelry making and have gotten away from paper and glue. With the new year I am going to make one thing a day... nothing fancy and using whatever is around. I've made two new collages and I'm excited to get back into this medium.

Take a look .https://www.flickr.com/photos/picturegirl/23559861873/in/dateposted-public/

 https://www.flickr.com/photos/picturegirl/24186629045/in/dateposted-public/

Felt Collage

I am continuing to experiment with fiber and collage. In this piece I started with a needle felted base, cut out three holes and then covered them with gauze and silk. I stitched them together with a new japanese paper thread I just discovered. This is the result.

Available for purchase in my Etsy shop.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/123717616/mixed-media-fiber-art-felt-collage?ref=v1_other_1

Inspiration: Leonore Tawney

I have just come across this artist who lived to be 100 years old, Leonore Tawney. She was quite a revolutionary artist, working as a weaver and collage artist.

"She manipulated her weavings into sculptural forms such as The King Iand The Queen, 1962, a revolutionary concept at the time.

Many of her works incorporate handwritten and printed manuscripts in a variety of languages from the early Discours Historiques,1966, and Epîtres, 1967, to That Other Sea, 1967, and Distilla, 1967. More often than not she employed strips of paper in a weaverly fashion."

http://craftcouncil.org/magazine/article/lenore-tawney-spiritual-revolutionary

Google her to find out more about this inspiring woman and artist.

Collage

I've been going through my art and have found some collages I did a few years ago. I love the medium and I am a notorious paper junkie. I can't part with cool scraps of paper I've been saving for years. Here are two collages I did on cigar boxes and one that's a portrait of...see if you can guess!

Artist book

This image is from an art project I did in an old book. I gesso-ed the pages then did collage and printing with found materials. This one uses bubble wrap and an old hat making supply catalog that was my mothers. She made hats and other cool things. That's where I get my love of making.

collage

In the course making one piece of art a day for a month, I'm revisiting collage. Here's a new one (burgundy and chartreuse). The other two were made two years ago. I think they all go together nicely. I'm having fun.
The items and many more are available in my etsy shop. http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5823533
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