Thursday 30 April 2015

Firestone CD Factory 1929.

Catalina Island Fish Tanks. 1925.

This week's theme: The 20s/The 30s/The 40s

Yowzah! Yowzah! Yowzah! A choice of those three exciting decades this week for inspiration.
Anything goes connected with those eras. World events, the arts, people etc...Get cutting and glueing hepcats!

Thursday 23 April 2015

Under The Boardwalk


What's Under The Escalator?

This week's theme: Going Underground: Subterranea


Life underground. Could be all things troglodyte, womble, insect or mole-like and all creatures betwixt and between dwelling in those catacombs/tunnels/cellars/bunkers below or journeying to the centre of the earth.

Wednesday 22 April 2015

Name the Game


    At the very last moment ....
    Love the theme, but was away a long weekend.

Monday 20 April 2015

The Queen of Hearts

"Zelda" (that is what I have named her) is a found photo pasted down on an antique endpaper and flanked by two reproduction playing cards (from a deck identified as I. Hardy Card Maker to his Majesty & the Prince of Wales.)

The Digestive System

Just back from a nice weekend in Yorkshire so haven't made much collage lately - started this one before I left.

Thursday 16 April 2015

Fish Glass Toss at the Carnival of Inappropriate Games

If your ping pong balls lands in the glass you win the fish!  Really?  I remember Gold Fish Bowl Toss when I was a kid.  Poor little fishies.

(Note on collage elements:  I had just cut out those glasses of water from a newspaper advertisement and wanted to use them in a collage soon.  When I read the theme of this week's collage challenge this came together pretty quickly.)

Roll The Dice

Wednesday 15 April 2015

This week's theme: GAMES


Collages based around any type of game - board, card, video, sports etc...or some ideas for new ones.
Roll the Dice! Ready, Steady....Go! Let the collages commence.
 - Ron

Why A Duck?

Monday 13 April 2015

A message from Fi

Hi everyone.  I have been in contact with Fi and she has asked me to explain her absence from The Kollage Kit.  At this time health circumstances do not allow Fi access to her studio which involves climbing up steps.  You might wish to check in with Fi and wish her well.  As I know more I will post updates.  Please keep her in your thoughts.

Signset in the mountains


Thursday 9 April 2015

No Left Turn

Postcards From the Edge (Tirol)

Conveyor Belt

Sign Art: Kollage Style! This week's theme.

Those signs have surrounded us everywhere for years - telling us this, telling us that.
So, looking for your take on all kinds of signs we might see. For Mad Men fans it could be your version of vintage or current advertising signs for real or imagined products.
A small element of typography is to be included somewhere.
Kollage Kit - a Kut Above the Rest! (I'll get my coat...)

Wednesday 8 April 2015

Giant Fool on the Hill

Just made this collage!  I was in Baltimore and New York City all week.

Found my 'giant fool' in a favorite NYC haunt, The Argosy Book Store, 116 E. 59th Street.  Since 1925, six stories of old & rare books, prints, photographs and autographs.  A place Joseph Cornell visited routinely to find ephemera for his works.  The Argosy has a table set up outside the shop featuring $1 bargain books.  The fool is from the back cover of a $1 1984 exhibition catalogue of French Drawings 1550-1825 published by The Pierpont Morgan Library.  He is "Momus" by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724-1780).

Momus is pasted down on an old painting which I trimmed and placed on top of a photograph of a landscape.

Monday 6 April 2015

Groucho and Clowns

Sorry have been away for a few days in Berlin so a bit behind with my collaging.

Thursday 2 April 2015

Lucky Slim


It takes a fool to remain sane


 From the archives..
One of the first postcards I ever made.

Playing The Fool.

Greetings everyone! Here I am, your Kollage host for April.
We've just had April Fool's Day. We all love a fool…we might have been one ourselves occasionally. So, looking for representations of The Fool. Clowns, jesters, movie fools, favourite fools, silly fools, historical fools, old fools, fools who break the rules……Ron