Friday - Collage Art and Fodder everywhere!

Although I no longer do collage every day, I do it the most at the moment. Actually if I'm being truthful I have spent more time making collage fodder than actual collage art. I have to admit finding new things to try on the Gelli plate or just on a random piece of paper with paint is enticing beyond belief.

This is a piece of newsprint I use for rolling the paint off of the brayer - sometimes it is a work of art all by itself and got added to the art journal just as it was - looks like an abstract vase and flowers to me --- what do you see? 

Gesso on a piece of watercolor paper made it harder than normal. When I painted the landscape on it I thought it would make a good page for the art journal as a post card with some ink stamps and a small piece of paper that looked like an actual stamp.

Right now, I have a nice little system going for my collage papers. I just got a cart with rollers (shown at the bottom of this post) that isn't yet organized completely but will be soon. It has allowed me to move things from under the work table making room for the two boxes filled with collage paper split into Cool and Warm colors with a lot of other things in each box such as the sewed hankies I've painted and am embroidering. I thought I'd share some of my new favorite pieces of fodder and the painted hankies so far.

 Playing with string and paint within a book - such a cool design!

String and circles on the Gelli plate and some "ghosts" after adding a little more paint over the first designs of string and circles.

Another successful pull off of the Gelli plate reminds me of buildings! Cool!

Old embroidery by a beloved relative whose table runner it was sewn on had fallen apart, gave me the idea to cut them all out and add them to art journals and collage art. Preserving the art within the cloth in a new way. Under those are my own hand drawn designs and embroidered back stitching on old hankies I also painted. Will be added to art either in journals or part of a collage on something. Or both!

I finally managed to remember to get these cool little plastic organizers that comes in a 2-pack on Amazon for beads although I'm using one for my alphabet letters cut outs. I do believe the 2nd organizer will have beads or bead-like things in it for mosaics. It felt great to get these all sorted.

 

Next week I'll be using the time to do some promoting for my Etsy shop. I'm completely rewriting titles and descriptions at the moment and they all should be finished by then. I hope.

Remember to find something creative to do every day.

Don't forget to come say "hi" on one or all of the social media spots. See you there!

 

Enjoy the journey.

Cindy aka EarthMotherMosaics

https://artbyearthmothermosaics.com