Monochrome - Seeing Red

 

Monochrome - Grey

From the archive
 

Red Alert

 Using some of Dave’s old Sunday supplements…not happy with it..but I tried.

Monochrome.

 I made this before I read your sentence about black and white bring the easy option…

I think you a right…I have just made a terrible red one…coming soon … as I thought I should take the challenge…hmmmmmmm…I will let you be the judge of the red one!

Monochrome - Green Around The Jills

Ugh! I hate this but thought I'd show it anyway as I doubt I can come up with anything better! We shall see.

Theme: Monochrome

And now for something completely different... "A monochrome or monochromatic image is composed of one color (or values of one color)."  It seems quite a challenge to make a collage that mainly consists of (gradations of) one color. (Unless of course you choose black/grey/white. That's easy!) I'm curious to know what you think of this theme.

Enchantment - Enchanted Entities

 

Enchanted Garden

Enchanted Collagist

ENCHANTE

In a 1906 travel guide, Lilian Whiting first used the phrase "The Land of Enchantment" to describe the western territories of the United States. New Mexico officially adopted the slogan quite recently. 

Pictured on "The Badlands" -- sharply eroded buttes, spires and pinnacles and mixed-grass prairie of Southwestern South Dakota -- is a lovely lady swiped from an enchanting Maxfield Parrish painting entitled "Stars". I added the wooden horse (originally a weather vane) as a ghost-like presence that probably could not survive The Badlands. The double rainbow happened to be in the photo of said territory which added a bit of enchantment, heightened by the addition of a lovely antique dragonfly brooch.

Enchantment - An Enchanting Encouter

 

enchantment: Pigs Might Fly

Enchanted Space.

 Images taken from a couple of Dave’s Sunday supplements.

Enchantment - Bitchcraft

 From my archive

Enchantment - The Magic Tree Stump

From the archives.

Theme: Enchantment

 The world is full of wonders. You will certainly materialize some magical collages!

The Birds and the Bees - Wannebee Birds

 

Birds and Bees - Dangers Of Bees Being Sniffed

From the archives.

birds-and-bees: Bee in the Bonnet & a Bird in the Hand.

Let me tell ya 'bout the BIRDS and the BEES and the flowers and the trees and the moon up above...

 ...and a thing called LOVE! This collage was created with inspiration from the hit song entitled:

"The Birds and the Bees" released in 1964 by Jewel Akens. Find it on YouTube if you don't know it!

The Birds and the Bees - "Explicit content"

 

The object the bird is sitting on, is a microscopic image of a spermatozoon.

 

The Birds and the Bees…or “Sugaring” for Moths.

 

The Birds And The Bees - All Things Chirping And Buzzing

Page from my sketchbook this morning. Coloured papers cut from old National Geographic mag.

THEME: The Birds and the Bees

 The temperature is rising in the Netherlands. This theme seems suitable for summertime. Interpret it any way you like..

Sun or Moon - Creatures of the Dark

 

On the foreground creatures associated with evil and bad omens. (Collected for the theme Superstitions.) On the background Stonehenge, the prehistoric megalithic structure in England, that is aligned towards the sunrise on the summer solstice and sunset on the winter solstice.
 

Sun or Moon - Moonstruck

 

The man with the beard is Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642), the famous Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer. He build an improved telescope and was the first person who observed the lunar craters.  In 1633 the roman inquisition sentenced him to lifelong house arrest for "heresy", for holding the belief that the earth revolves around the sun. It took the catholic church more than 300 years to declare Galilei was right.

 

SUN or MOON -- this involves BOTH!

Best seat in the house to watch the eclipse of the moon which, of course, is caused by the SUN casting the earth's shadow on the MOON.

SUN or MOON -- "Ascension"

I am currently working on a collage for this theme, but since everyone is posting such great pieces I thought I would go back into my archives. This collage was made 16 years ago! It's always been a favorite of mine,

Sun or Moon - Eclipse

Moon and Sun Postcards

moon-or-sun: It's Only A Paper Moon...(Lunar Tune)

Sun or Moon - Dark side of the moon

From my archive. (Collage, created 13 years ago.)
 

Holiday on the Sun.

 Gertrude and Harry forgot how hot it was on the sun…Gertrude was starting to think a week there was going to be too much and she shouldn’t have packed her big coat.

Sun Or Moon - Recycled Postcard

THEME: Sun or Moon

 Unleash your inner sun worshipper or moonlover and make a collage that has something to do with the sun or the moon (or both). May your art be enlightened!

STAYCATION DESTINATION -- The Art Institute of Chicago

I am lucky to live in the city that includes The Art Institute of Chicago. Pictured above is "The Waterfall" 1910 by Henri Rousseau (1849-1910). This painting is in collection of the Art Institute.

Rousseau never set foot outside of France.  "The Waterfall" is one of his large scale imagined jungle scenes for which he gained renown. 

I have never been to a jungle. But I will don my sunhat and visit the A.I. and sit for a spell under this masterpiece and imagine I am in that jungle.

Vacation Destination - Cultural Trip(ping)

After a long time looking for a vacation-like surrounding for the lady on the air mattress, I thought she matched so good with the art of Yayoi Kusama. I added a red dotted fish skin and some sea anemones. No need to smoke mushrooms when you can enjoy art..
 

vacation-destination: Sailing...

From the Archive.

Four Postcards

Vacation Destination - Another Dimension

 

Vacation Destination - Egypt

 

VACATION DESTINATION: The Paris of My Dreams

 

Destination …The Stars

 We must remember to enjoy the journey too..no matter which mode of transport we are given.

Vacation Destination - Three Postcards

The new Oxford of the future. A trip to the zoo and off to see the giant walnut at Le Zoute in Belgium.