Collaborative traditional cut and paste (scissors and glue ) collage blog with a weekly set theme.
Tuesday, 28 February 2017
Forcing Bulbs Indoors
Sunday, 26 February 2017
it takes balance
Surfing in February? Yes indeed. February is the month when the monster waves, 30-40 feet, come rollin' onto the north coast of Oahu. They pound the sand so hard that if you're standing on the beach too close it feels like an earthquake. It can knock you off your feet!
they're watching us
Background fashioned from rubber stamps. Other images from Taschen's "Mid-Century Ads" calendar.
oblique-lined dottyback
From my archives. The fish species provides the title: an oblique-lined dottyback.
1-3-4-5-7
Another from my archives. The title is for you to figure out, if you're interested in doing so...
New ones to follow...
Friday, 24 February 2017
Thursday, 23 February 2017
Calender Girls
As for I´m escaping from Carnival I´m posting my new ones from yesterday.
They are pretty huge - each one 53,3 x 42 cm (21 x 16,5 inches) - and pretty kitschy!
A No Theme: Free for All
Not had one of these for a while, so just do you what one wants this week free-style for the creations with the glue, scissors and paper.
Time flies and February is coming to an end. I'm quite happy to continue through the month of March setting the themes if that's okay with everyone. - Ron
Time flies and February is coming to an end. I'm quite happy to continue through the month of March setting the themes if that's okay with everyone. - Ron
Wednesday, 22 February 2017
POPEYE AND THE GREAT SPINACH MYTH
Sorry Popeye, spinach
DOESN'T make your muscles big: Expert reveals sailor's love of the food
was due to a misplaced decimal point!
READ ABOUT IT HERE:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2354580/Popeyes-legendary-love-spinach-actually-misplaced-decimal-point.html
Tuesday, 21 February 2017
Fake Cigarettes
Monday, 20 February 2017
mr. bones at myth and legends bingo night
Mr. Bones was excited to attend church bingo night with the theme of "Myths & Legends." He got started on his card, but then a call came in on his bone phone, and he had to step out to take the call. Unfortunately, he bingoed more than once while he was gone, but he couldn't collect the prizes because he wasn't there to cry out "Bingo!"
The imagery in each square derives from a specific myth or legend. In Column 1 Row 5, for example, is the story of Cupid and Venus. In Column 4 Row 4 is that of Saturn eating his children. The artists include William Blake, Hieronymus Bosch, Sandro Botticelli, Agnolo Bronzini, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Francisco de Goya, Gustave Doré, Caspar David Friedrich, Tonie Roos, Salomen Trismosin and Ferdinand von Wright. Mr. Bones is a Zapotec interpretation of the Aztec God of Death, 1300 C.E.
I hope the concept of church bingo night is not too obscure for our friends across the pond. =smile=
War of the Welles
"The War of the Worlds" was an episode of the American radio drama anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on Sunday, October 30, 1938, and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. Directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds (1898). It became famous for allegedly causing mass panic, although the reality of the panic is disputed as the program had relatively few listeners.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzC3Fg_rRJM
'Girls hanging out of the window' by Rembrandt van Rijn
'Something in this painting makes me doubt about if this is a real Rembrandt or some fake artist!'
From the area of fables
This is - for now - the last one from this series (I made 14 of them) - freshly glued some minutes ago. Fables are fitting to the theme "Myths and Legends", don´t they?
Sunday, 19 February 2017
no laughing matter
Artist Jon Foster, of IUOMA (International Union of Mail Artists), mails "Add and Return" cards to anyone who sends him their mailing address. The template for what you see here is one of those cards, modified by yours truly with cut-paper collage, rubber stamps, and markers.
Why "No Laughing Matter?" Because even though American TV comedians (including news commentators) are having a heyday of humor since the Combover Clown was elected President, I'm afraid I'm not laughing. Donald J. Trump may not be the Great Cthulhu, from whom several myths derive—frankly, I doubt he's intelligent enough to be one of Lovecraft's Elder Gods—but it seems to me he's at the center of a tentacular network of greed and corruption. Even, eventually, of bloodshed.
I sometimes use frames to set off material that I don't wish to consciously acknowledge: hence, a brown frame with images of fertility/creativity goddesses wearing the pink knitted "kitty hats" that women wore during the March on Washington and at other protests.
Friday, 17 February 2017
Fake Attorney Challenges Real News
Moon Landing Conspiracy Theories
Did Man Actually Walk on the Moon?
(1969-1972)
By the way that is Raymond Burr who portrayed television attorney Perry Mason. The show ran from 1957-1966.
By the way that is Raymond Burr who portrayed television attorney Perry Mason. The show ran from 1957-1966.
Thursday, 16 February 2017
Myths & Legends (and Hoaxes & Fakes)
Collages can be based on mythical, legendary, historical and fictional events or even some new fanciful inventions of your own.
"Fake News" and "Alternative Facts" it seems this is all we've hearing these past few months.
I thought the subject might prove fruitful for collages. - Ron
"Fake News" and "Alternative Facts" it seems this is all we've hearing these past few months.
I thought the subject might prove fruitful for collages. - Ron
Tuesday, 14 February 2017
Monday, 13 February 2017
Saturday, 11 February 2017
Friday, 10 February 2017
Thursday, 9 February 2017
Valentine's Cards
The Object of Her Affection
This week's theme: L.O.V.E.
With St Valentines just a few days away, it has to be "Love Love Love" as the theme.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Nor hath love's mind of any judgement taste;
Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.
And therefore is love said to be a child
Because in choice he is so oft beguiled
Shakespeare in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Tuesday, 7 February 2017
Monday, 6 February 2017
Sunday, 5 February 2017
Friday, 3 February 2017
Ken Dodd
Thursday, 2 February 2017
This week's theme: Hairstyles
Morning everyone. I thought I'd start my stint with a fun theme to get you snipping and styling.
It's not inspired at all by a nameless person dominating the news at the moment. ;-)
- Ron
It's not inspired at all by a nameless person dominating the news at the moment. ;-)
- Ron