The Elephants in the rooms

 

Elephant In The Room.................................Elefantasy (Unlucky For Some)

Theme Of The Week.......................The Elephant In The Room

What is the elephant in the room? The elephant may not be your usual jumbo - maybe something obvious we don't want to mention in case it upsets some folks? Have fun!

Iceland

 Geysers, woolly jumpers and weird landscapes…a few things that remind me of Iceland.

ICE..........................Aeroplane Aviator Drops Snowballs On Polar Bear

ICE -- A Polar Plunge

The Polar Plunge Chicago is an annual event where thousands of participants take an icy dip into Lake Michigan to raise money for Special Olympics Illinois, an organization that provides year-round sports training and athletic competition for people with intellectual disabilities.

Have I ever? No way!! Happy to donate money and stay warm and dry!!

ice: Al Bowlly On Ice.

ICE hockey (from the archives)

 Don't let that cookie crumble or you will lose!

(Actually made for a Holiday Card I never sent out 

with a caption about achieving goals in the New Year!)

Ice

 Putting the theme on early to hopefully pop up on the day..as we will be away in Iceland for a few days.

Although Iceland isn’t covered in ice but Greenland is…weird…we decided to have Ice as the theme.

So think of anything cold and icy, ice Queen, ice hockey, ice cream…and even ICE is in the news ..but we don’t want to think about that…!!

Keep warm…

Bath Time...............................Bathrooms and Racoons

bath-time: Wild Bathing in The Beautiful Briny Sea

BATH TIME -- featuring a bevy of bathing beauties!

 

Bath time (in luxury)

 I hate getting cold and wet….but I love a hot bath…

Added some chocolates, nice smelling potions and a couple of bath toys..heaven.

 

Bath Time In The Aquarium

The scanner isn't working so had to make do with this poor photo with reflections. Doh!

Theme Of The Week............................Bath Time (or other ways of getting wet )

Splish splash! Have fun finding old bath tubs and shower units!

A Sign of the Times -- Pay Attention!

 

sign-of-the-times: A.I. Dating Agency

Sign Of The Times...................Down With This Sort Of Thing

Sign of the times

 When I did this I came upon the “dead king” image..

It reminded me of the amount of Americans on line actively wishing to hear Trump had died and saying they have champagne on ice ready to celebrate…

I wouldn’t wish for anyone to die…but I do wish he would go away and shut up…vile man.

****king Trump.

Also…blooming Union Jacks keep appearing on lamp posts all over the place..another sign of the times..

The little collage is made of the leftovers glued into my diary notebook.

Sign Of The Times.....................it's yours! FREE!

Theme Of The Week ....................Sign Of The Times

Wave those placards - put up those posters! Signs of dissent - signs of commerciality? Make up your own signs - have fun with words!

What's Happening At The Back.........................Twofer

Imay have got these mixed up - the front has got a tape recorder in the bottom left hand corner - always useful for recording your over sized gerbils.

First the Front and Then the Back of a Collage from the Archives

 

 

What's Happening on the Back ... BUT What's Happening on the Front?

I didn't post images as large as I usually do but if you click on each image it does get larger.

I created this collage from things that were just sitting on my work table.

 

Four Backs From The Archives.....

These are from 2020 during lockdown.

Both Sides Now

FRONT

BACK

Created on a piece of cellophane then flipped.

I used the same background on the scanner. Good fun to do...and it is a rainy day out there as a back caption says!

Front and Back

 

Well that was an interesting experiment…

What's Happening At The Back?........................Wild Rocks/Zoo

So I plundered yet again the old facsimile book of victorian childrens stories and poems with amusing illustrations of the time. These two pages seemed ideal as they were next to each other although one would be upside down. I made slits where the bars of the cage was so I could slip animals and birds into the cages soon realised they would be tricky to accomodate. So the rocks and minerals seemed a better solution and easier to cut out! Well, it amused me for an hour or so fiddling about with the slots and the rocks. The results need some work but for now here they are.

Here's the other side which is less successful but has a surrealness ( is that a word?) which I like.

Three Backs from the Archives -

Three recent collage backs which caught my eye.

Theme for this week is - What's Happening At The Back?

Make A COLLAGE THAT WORKS front ways and back ways or where the back is connected to the front in some way via a window or a slit in the paper ( or card ). This might be tricky but will be interesting to see the results. We sometimes find that backs of collages are just as interesting as the fronts by accident. Go through your archive to find those hidden gems!

BANKSY and the ART of DECEPTION

 Found on the internet: Banksy uses deception primarily through his consistent anonymity and clever, unexpected artistic stunts, such as the self-shredding painting after an auction, to comment on the art world and society. This tactic makes him an enigma, fuels media attention, and allows him to control his narrative, though it also creates issues with authentication and opens the door for fakes.

I had fun making these three ATCs ala Banksy.

(The brick background is from the last bit of a sheet of 'scrapbooking' paper I purchased years ago and I had JUST enough to create 3 ATCs in the correct measurements!)

the-art-of-deceit: You've WON a Prize!!

I See No Ships?

How many people are hiding in this picture?

 I set myself and us all a tricky one….so I just hid people in shoes….

The Art of Deceit…

Going behind Michael’s back and being sneaky  adding this without his knowledge.

This weeks theme is…

Things that are not what they seem…hidden things…camouflage…slight of hand and eye…

The act of lying comes to mind..maybe “biggly numbers”.

Free For All.............................Voted In Rat Lies

Free For All................................Scene Et La Vic

Free For All ...........................Monsters In The White House

A recycled postcard.

FREE for ALL

This is the page I decided to create a collage on (I referenced this quote when I chose Free for All as a theme). A couple of the images are from an auction catalogue of collectible "Outsider" or self-taught  artists. It was fun to make. I hope you like it.

free-for-all: It's Trad Dad!

Critical Assemblage

Here's the other of which I spoke. Not sure if its any better but it took me longer to find all those words!