While many find the promise of fall exciting as I used to around this time of year, now I see August as an emotional month. I promised myself this year I'd go lightly with my thoughts and emotions; accept them but not dwell on them. It's only the beginning of the month and there's a lot to get through. Hopefully by the end of it, I will have created a lot of art expressing how I felt to help me get through it.
For those not aware, I lost my Dad, Mom, Grandmother and most precious kitty all in August. Not the same year, thank goodness, and not in that order, but still a month filled with emotions. I have decided I'd focus on one thing each day in this month to honor them and I'll be starting that this week. I foresee a lot of butterflies in the making!
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| Tiger Swallowtail visiting our thistle. When I saw it I thought: "Say Hi to my Dad!" |
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| Numbers 149-152 in the collage a day journal (another 4 are below) |
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| I finished this up in all black and white. I do love this stencil! |
I took a piece of junk mail (a small catalog) and cut it in half, glued the pages together and did collage on them. Eventually I cut them so they were large cards and put a binder ring at the top to hold them. These are a few of my favorite pages below.
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| Grid work last week was focused on quirky butterflies. Fun! |
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| Numbers 153-156 in the collage a day journal |
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| Taking mostly clothing tags and making cute cards and tags to be added to journal pages. |
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| It started with beet juice. I swear it's true. I added my favorite watercolor ink sprays to it once dry. So beautifully grungy! |
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| Medical exam paper soaked in beet juice and stamped with my handmade styrofoam stamps. |
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| Look at the size of the paper I'm using for the eyes. It's just like the way I approach a mosaic. The smaller pieces gives me the best result. Finished collage shown below. |
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| "Mister Pink Nose" - Voorhees in collage |
The layering begins below in this art journal. This has glue resist, paint and pieces of papers so far. It won't look like this soon!
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| "Imperfectly Perfect" with watered down acrylics, stencils and ink. |
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| "Create fearlessly: dream relentlessly" - continuation of page above. |
I'm taking a free online art retreat that started on Saturday. Some of the classes I can't take because I don't have an iPad to use the Procreate app or it's in relation to sewing which I'm not really into but the watercolor and mixed media classes I'm enjoying quite a lot.
I'm still fighting with watercolor. Sometimes my art looks awesome, sometimes ... not so much.
I'll share next week, if I feel any art I've done will make the cut. Stay tuned!
Enjoy your week!
Cindy, EarthMotherMosaics - Mixed Media Art
Instagram: @artbyearthmothermosaics
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Stay Peaceful and Enjoy the Journey
