One fun thing to try is to photocopy your artwork in black and white and then cut and paste pieces of it onto a collage. Use paints on top to embellish it. Stage 1: Stage Two: During the next stage, I am going to lay translucent paper on top and then print out a photo on painted paper as a final layer. Hopefully that will tie everything together.
The background is painted with watercolor paints. I cut out circles from magazines and from photocopies of my own artwork. Then I glued them to the paper and doodled around them and on top of them with Prismacolor Markers and Paint Markers. The background is map-like with the blue and green (water and land). I was reading a book called “You are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination” which intrigued me.
New Christmas scrapbook pages. I have a Christmas scrapbook where I make two or three pages every year with pictures from that years’ Christmas. I have done it for about 6 years or so now… it’s fun to see how the family changes.
Many of these are pages in progress and I’m trying to figure out what to do with them. For now they are saved in my journal, waiting for another day. I have a bunch of photographs I “warped” with bleach spray which I may put on top of the pages. We’ll see…
These are two pages I made while “taking” the online Strathmore Visual Journaling Course. Pam Carriker led us through the process of using photocopies of some of our old collages, cutting them up and adding layers of gesso and paint prints. The top one uses portions of old collages and the bottom page does not. With the bottom page, I started by painting circular shapes with watercolor paints. I did some writing with white pens and smears of chalk pastels. … Read more…
