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

 

Creative Chaos Journal

Here's more of my art journal. I'm only sharing a few pages each post but it is fun to see how it's progressing over time (for me anyway).

A few I've left alone; others I keep adding splotches of paint or a doodle or something to it. It's an exercise for me to see how free I can be with paint. I have been using acrylics and watercolor.

 

Enjoy the journey.

 Cindy aka EarthMotherMosaics

https://artbyearthmothermosaics.com

 

In The Studio - Part One

There's not much going on this week, in the studio. The muse and I are resting now that I've finished up the placing of glass and mirror and other fun things on the 10 small gifts for my Facebook buds.

I'm still having a lot of fun with doodles, drawing and coloring every day. I have taken an old book and turned it into an art journal, something I've wanted to do for a good long time now. Many of the pages will be pulled out to draw on, but some are staying in the journal.

Gesso (a primer) was added to the outside of the book which was then painted in my favorite color of green. The inside has gotten some gesso on it too. I glued a few pages together to give it some stability.

I have almost used up all the gelly rolls and gel pens! They don't last long when you use them every day. I did this Hamsa with gelly roll pens this week.

I added some watercolor crayons and pencils to my ever growing stash of art supplies.

Last night I finished up some of the pencil and pen drawings with lots of color!

I'm waiting for some awesome pens to arrive. Once they have, some doodles will be made using those only with no color necessary. I'm excited to start playing with them!

I've been looking over the substrates I have to mosaic to try to decide what to work on next. I will give it a few more days to allow the muse to rest a bit. I'm positive we'll get going on something very soon.

I've added quite a few fun things to Storenvy recently. I've taken some of my photos of doodles, mosaics and nature and made them into pillows, switch plate covers and grocery tote bags. Here's the newest grocery totes added yesterday.

Grocery Totes available on Storenvy

Look under the Home Decor and Pillows and Tote Bags sections to see more.

Support Independent Artisans, Designers and Crafters for your gift-giving needs all throughout the year. Thank you!

Stay peaceful,

Cindy