Progress on the 100 Day Collage Challenge

I've almost filled up this book. Once it's last few pages have a square on them, it'll be 80 days worth of collage.

I've learned a few things but still have so much more to learn. I do this by practicing every day. Not just with collage, but also still with mosaic and doodles that I've done for years, watercolor, and the newer fun of learning how to create junk journals, sticker books, art journals and painting/doing collage on cardboard of all kind.

For this 100 Day Collage Challenge, I gather the hand made collage papers I've made and put them together for use to make sure I like them together. These are the ones I am working with now.

 

I have discovered I'm using too many in a small space. So the next group of 5 will be less. I have so many papers I tend to keep grabbing thinking I'll have no problem filling in the 3-1/2 inch space. Even after months of creating them, I finally realized using less would make the small space more cohesive.

I often just rip them if they're not difficult to rip. Sometimes I cut them. I decide that once I start the new first set of 5 and go with that theme until the next set. I have to tape down the page I'm working on now because I'm so close to the end of the book.

As I shared before in a previous post or two, once 5 days are finished I glue the papers onto a separate board. I have almost filled up 3 boards.

I don't have boards in this size now, so the next grouping will be on something that I haven't decided on just yet. I have a lot of wood floating around that I use for mosaics, so it's possible I will use some pieces to add collage to. Actually it's very likely.

Here's a few of my favorites so far from the book.

The big black "O" was painted on paper and cut out, the center part as well, to add here.

An experiment with the wrong kind of paper and coffee produced some crumbled globs that I kinda dig a lot. A piece is along side the 3 black dots, upper right. What a great texture!

All of these papers were one-of-a-kind and I'm mourning them. They were so pretty. Almost all of them came from the rubber roller clean off from Gelli plate prints. Many I've been using come from it, more than the Gelli plate prints because they don't always work out too well but you gotta clean off the roller before the paint dries. The exception is the bottom right which is a piece from a watercolor I did.

I'm really enjoying this path into a new (to me) art form. Please stay with me if it's enjoyable for you as well. And if it's not, thank you for staying so long. I'm very grateful.

Until next time ...

Enjoy the journey.

Cindy aka EarthMotherMosaics

https://artbyearthmothermosaics.com