Background made with my handmade stamps.
Collaborative traditional cut and paste (scissors and glue ) collage blog with a weekly set theme.
Sunday, 31 January 2016
Saturday, 30 January 2016
Friday, 29 January 2016
Thursday, 28 January 2016
Postcard Sandwich
This weeks theme(s) : 1. Abstract Plus (figurative)
Yes this week there are two themes.
I sometimes like to 'chew' a bit longer on a subject, so theme 1 is 'Abstract' plus whatever you feel like ... try to take your abstract to a higher level and if you use figurative elements try to make them an integrated part of your abstract.
Feel free to use the abstracts from last week, or make new ones.
And for those who are fed up with the abstracts there is
Theme of the week: 2 Make a Banner
I know this was a theme about 2 years ago but than I wasn't around and couldn't be part of it.
So make a banner for Kollage Kit (so Michael has something to choose from if he want's to change every now and than) or just any banner you like.
I'm not sure about the measurements so if someone can help me out? I thought 2 by 12 Inches,
that's 4cm by 30 cm, please correct me if I'm wrong.
Have fun!
I sometimes like to 'chew' a bit longer on a subject, so theme 1 is 'Abstract' plus whatever you feel like ... try to take your abstract to a higher level and if you use figurative elements try to make them an integrated part of your abstract.
Feel free to use the abstracts from last week, or make new ones.
And for those who are fed up with the abstracts there is
Theme of the week: 2 Make a Banner
I know this was a theme about 2 years ago but than I wasn't around and couldn't be part of it.
So make a banner for Kollage Kit (so Michael has something to choose from if he want's to change every now and than) or just any banner you like.
I'm not sure about the measurements so if someone can help me out? I thought 2 by 12 Inches,
that's 4cm by 30 cm, please correct me if I'm wrong.
Have fun!
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Tuesday, 26 January 2016
Good Fortune
A most peculiar abstract
The background text is an endpaper of an art book, these are all signatures of artists. The grey paper is a paper I often use for stenciling so that has a lot of paint and behind the holes I glued part of a figure (for its color).
Monday, 25 January 2016
Sunday, 24 January 2016
It's not all black and white
You can change this one in all 4 directions, it makes a big difference. I've also been using my own handmade stamps and blocked the paper in with paint.
A touch of blue
It isn't easy at all to make an abstract!
But I love to play so today I made some 'abstract' backgrounds I can always use in future collages.
Saturday, 23 January 2016
orange squiggles
For once, I don't have anything to say—about the collage, that is. =grin= But I do want to thank y'all for the warm "welcome back" messages. I still can't climb the stairs to my studio in the normal fashion, but I can crawl up on my hands and knees.
Friday, 22 January 2016
Thursday, 21 January 2016
zig-zag
Background polygons from magazine & catalog clippings. Central zig-zag from real (not facsimile) mid-19th-century ledger paper. Thanks to the influence of composer John Cage, I let chance determine the locations of the black painted lines: their positions are pairs of integers in sequence from a random number generator.
Wednesday, 20 January 2016
This Week's Theme: 'Abstract'
This is way out of my comfort zone, so that's why I want to give it a try.
Think form, shape, color, texture, pattern, composition.
Perhaps you can make a beautiful background for future collages.
Get inspired by Kurt Schwitters or Rex Ray or just google 'abstract' collages.
Have fun!
Think form, shape, color, texture, pattern, composition.
Perhaps you can make a beautiful background for future collages.
Get inspired by Kurt Schwitters or Rex Ray or just google 'abstract' collages.
Have fun!
Tuesday, 19 January 2016
Sunday, 17 January 2016
Saturday, 16 January 2016
rebel rebel
"Rebel Rebel" by David Bowie, with lyrics.
Background is a detail from Ayé Aton's "Untitled" (1964). Photo of girl from "Fresh Fruits" collection by Phaidon Press. Her blue scarf from Pattern Box.
R.I.P. David Bowie
Friday, 15 January 2016
Ground Control to Major Tom
I am reorganizing my bookshelf - therefore my desk is so overcrowded with my books that I can not do one single collage at the moment... so I have to show one from the archives!
Thursday, 14 January 2016
I Am Your Queen Bitch, Your Hot Tramp, Your China Girl...
This week's Theme: "David Robert Jones, the boy from Brixton"
I'm sure we all have our memories.
Feel free to paint, draw and mix media as well.
Feel free to paint, draw and mix media as well.
