The water looks so green here - but in real it´s very indigo! I swear ;-)
Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Tuesday, 30 January 2018
WHO? (Is picking the next round of themes? If no one else wants to, I will!)
This is NOT a collage. I found this art online so I could pose the question who is picking the next round of themes which I would be happy to do. But I did make sure the type was close to indigo blue!
Monday, 29 January 2018
Indigo Mood
Lovely portrait by Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) entitled "Portrait of
Woman in White" circa 1930. Scarf around her neck cut from a J. Peterman
catalogue. Peacock is from a "how to paint birds" book. Background is
from my trusty book called "Swatches" which has page after page of
photographs of beautiful textiles.
Saturday, 27 January 2018
Friday, 26 January 2018
Thursday, 25 January 2018
Blue Elephant
From the archive. Got a bad back at the moment so not doing much that involves too much bending, lifting and sorting of collage materials. Hopefully will be on the mend soon and get back into some proper collaging.
WEEKLY THEME - Mood Indigo
Get in the mood for indigo...one of the world's favorite colors. Centuries ago weavers discovered how to extract the color indigo by soaking certain green leaves in water, and today every one of us owns a pair of blue jeans. The Mayans used indigo in pottery and frescoes, traces of indigo have been found on Egyptian textiles, the Chinese used it for inks, and Picasso had his Blue Period. But..."Mood Indigo" is ALSO a strange 2013 French movie in which a man finds his true love but then risks losing his fortune after she develops a strange condition in which she must always be surrounded by fresh flowers. Oh, and it's ALSO a fabulous song by the great jazzman, Duke Ellington.
What can YOU do with indigo?
What can YOU do with indigo?
Tuesday, 23 January 2018
Monday, 22 January 2018
Like Mother, Like Daughter
Duck face is a photographic pose, which
is well known on profile pictures in social networks. Lips are pressed
together as in a pout and often with simultaneously sucked cheeks. The
pose is most often seen as an attempt to appear alluring, but also as a
self-deprecating, ironic gesture making fun of the pose.
Sunday, 21 January 2018
Saturday, 20 January 2018
drifting off in a world of their own
Weird (Roman?) animal from Dover clip art. Baby and woman from Curious Moments: the caption says the baby is five and a half months old, and that he's been able to do that stunt "practically since he was born." Words are the title of an article in the New York Review of Books. Sculpture in background was made by Andrea Zittel.
Friday, 19 January 2018
The Modern Way To Produce Babies
This is the very first collaboration Lynn and I made in June 2013!
In the meanwhile we did 86 collaborative collages, had an exhibition together in Germany,
met in real in the USA, made 57 Tricollages together with Josephine.
I am really curious what will happen in the future!
What a creative birth we did in 2013!
Thursday, 18 January 2018
this is what we were going through
From my archives, more than five years ago. Bob and I were miserably caught in a maze of federal bureaucracy, which is what the lines of white paint are supposed to represent. I was surprised to find that after making most of this collage, I felt some hope. So I added the baby.
Dark blue globe with dangling man is from the Hell panel of Hieronymus Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights" (c. 1500). Pond is clip art. Other images from junk mail.
WEEKLY THEME: Babies
It's a new year, and the symbol of a new year is a fat, bouncing, new baby. So, let's make that our theme for this week. I'll start it off by posting one from my archives, so get busy and give us a baby...or babies...or oooh, baby, oooh...or baby steps...or baby carrots or...you get the drill.
Monday, 15 January 2018
Bloom Where You Are Planted
I recently saw this saying and liked it a lot. So, I went to one of my resources for landscapes and found this awesome photo of White Sands National Monument, New Mexico. A caption stated "It isn't sand, really. It's gypsum, pure white, powdery, covering 275 square miles with restless dunes." Statue from a Dover clip art book. Blooms from a gardening book.
Sunday, 14 January 2018
the future of peculiar
The title of an article in Harper's was "The Future of Queer." As you might guess, the article was about homosexuality. But I got to thinking about different and older meanings of the word "queer"...
vaping blu smells good
I'm admitting how old and out of it I am: I didn't know what "vaping" is until I saw an advertisement in Rolling Stone for an e-cigarette called "blu" (lower-case, no "e"). The title of this collage was the tag line over a photo of a young woman vaping with the product—a black tube with a shiny blue cap.
Background from a painting by Alex McLeod.
"Unable to go either forward or back"
Collage on board with threads - form the archies
I once got a big bunch of bookmarks form an antiquarian - he collected all bookmarks which people left/ forgot in their books before they brought them to his shop: things like shopping lists, photos, little notepads, postcards, fotos .... and newspaper articles. I sorted them thematically and found many of the headlines very funny - this was the point when I decided to make a series out of them.
I once got a big bunch of bookmarks form an antiquarian - he collected all bookmarks which people left/ forgot in their books before they brought them to his shop: things like shopping lists, photos, little notepads, postcards, fotos .... and newspaper articles. I sorted them thematically and found many of the headlines very funny - this was the point when I decided to make a series out of them.
Saturday, 13 January 2018
Friday, 12 January 2018
LABORATORY TESTS PROVE NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE for people who drink Dr. Pepper!
Right on strong sisters!
This is part of the ORIGINAL Dr. Pepper ad from the 1960s.
The copy of the advertisement is my title.
What These Smiles May Have Concealed
Center square was torn from a feature story in last Sunday's New York Times newspaper (an article about that FINE human being, Harvey Weinstein...). All the surrounding images were snipped from a 1934 issue of "Physical Culture, The Personal Problem Magazine."
Bob Wolf
Not sure if I have uploaded this one before - a collaboration with my old poet friend Roger Stevens from the archives. A book idea we passed backwards and forwards for a while but nothing much cam of it. It was full of captions and verse of one kind or another.
Thursday, 11 January 2018
Nur Du, Gudrun!
Only you, Gudrun!
Illustrated headline from an article about palindromes
Infact a great theme Lynn! I started a series (kind go ongoing project) with headlines a while ago - and here is one collage from the archives .
Wednesday, 10 January 2018
THEME of the Week: A Caption
The collage I just posted for the "moon" theme has inspired our next theme -- I noticed a funny caption under a photo of a rat in the New York Times Magazine, and soon "A Rat Dragging a Moon Pie Into the Darkness" was born. So, here's our assignment for the next week: be inspired by a photo caption or a newspaper headline or an advertising tag line or any other other text in popular media. You can incorporate the text into your piece, if you wish, or make it the title, or just be inspired by it, as you choose. The only "rule" is that you identify for us what your inspiration was. Snip on!
Tuesday, 9 January 2018
Monday, 8 January 2018
Sunday, 7 January 2018
The Moon Goddess and Her Cats Comet and Asta
I have had the beautiful woman bedecked in moon symbols (and gold accents!) for so long I have no idea where I bought her and where this illustration is from. The collage is 8 x 8 inches which gives you an idea of her size. The beautiful moon is a painting by French artist and astronomer Lucien Rudaux (1874-1947) and I cut it out of The Larrouse Encyclopedia of Astronomy 1967. I named the cats Comet (meaning: a celestial body) and Asta (meaning: bright as a star).
Saturday, 6 January 2018
Friday, 5 January 2018
The comparitive sizes of the earth seen from the moon and the moon seen from the earth
Page from a vintage astronomy book. Tree with blue sky & clouds (which amazingly blended with the vintage b&w page!) and boulder cut from a picture book about The French Riviera.
Thursday, 4 January 2018
A Risque Moon
Night Moves
I was driving home from the framer's shop with this piece as I was admiring the recent super moon, so it gets posted first!
The Moon
Driving home last night I was startled by the moon -- it was huge!! It is "super moon" time, which means that we are having a full moon at the time when the orbit puts the moon and earth in closest proximity. So, this week's theme will be....THE MOON...super, or otherwise.
(And, thanks, Sabine, for being our theme leader this last month or two!)
(And, thanks, Sabine, for being our theme leader this last month or two!)
Wednesday, 3 January 2018
Ace of Disks
The Thoth Tarot was the brainchild of eccentric British diabolist Aleister Crowley. He designed it and Lady Frieda Harris painted it, between the years 1938 and 1943. The Ace of Disks, according to Crowley, represented "the root of the powers of earth" and the mystical unity of sun and earth, spirit and flesh. It stands for work, power, financial riches, satisfaction and materiality.
I have included the tarot card, an eclipse of the sun, the body of the young Greek girl Balaustion has the head of Edvard Munch's Madonna. I felt the tree and fertile ground from a painting by Monet, placed in the lower right, balances the collage while also referencing nature.
I have included the tarot card, an eclipse of the sun, the body of the young Greek girl Balaustion has the head of Edvard Munch's Madonna. I felt the tree and fertile ground from a painting by Monet, placed in the lower right, balances the collage while also referencing nature.