Friday - Weekly Wrap Up

Around this time in the moon's cycle, I find myself needing to organize, clean and so on. But also I find it's time to focus on new things to work on both personally and artistically.

Today, at the end of this week, I've discovered I have a long way to go with opening the second Etsy shop I had planned on opening before the end of the month. It's not going to happen by then and I know that's okay. It's okay to give myself more time. If I have to, I can wait until next year. And I might have to. Again, it's okay. Until then, I'll continue to wash and bag the dish pieces. Goodness knows I have enough to do that for quite some time.

 

Something else could come along that's not yet known. I'm open and willing to see what will happen, if it should.

I've found a good chunk of old cards that I'm now putting collage on. I also made a box to hold them as I make them. This is ideal, sitting close and ready to hold a finished card. Nice!

 

I'm not sure if I'll add holes to the top for hanging of these 4-1/4 x 6 inch cards or leave them as they are. Both sides have been altered. So far I only have 2 made but I'm loving the collage on the box shown in the last photo on the left.

I've been meditating a lot lately on what's next in this artistic adventure. I do so many different forms of art, every morning after meditating I say: what are we doing today?! It's exciting to find out each and every day. And sometimes I do nothing but rest and enjoy the day without art. It happens when I'm not sure where I want to continue and/or start with something. I need to allow myself to sit for a bit. It's one of the things I do when I take a break each month from all things social media related. I find I can focus a little better on new things when I don't scroll for endless minutes (hours) looking at stuff and things on my phone. I enjoy the break.

Here's a nice view as I see it each morning when I put questions out into the Universe:

An example of only some of the tools I use on any given day to create.

Pretty nifty, huh. Yeah, I think so too. 😂

And, of course, there's always something to sort or organize and this week was the week to do beads and Millefiori.

 

This is only some of them (gonna need another box) but I love the colors represented here. It makes me smile.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend; not too hot, not too rainy ... unless you like those things. Remember, take time to be creative!

Enjoy the journey.

Cindy aka EarthMotherMosaics

https://artbyearthmothermosaics.com

 

 

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