When you dress for roses but life gives you a trout.

 

Love Is In The Air....................................Hot Desert Architecture

LOVE is in the air with a little help from Venus & Aphrodite!

A very voluptuous Venus by Titian -- detail from Sacred & Profound Love ca 1514 by Tiziano Vecellio (aka Titian) meets Aphrodite ca 1915 by Paul Klee. What could go wrong?

THEME: Love is in the air

Get those hearts and flowers and candy ready and a romantic poem might not hurt:

A Red, Red Rose – Robert Burns

O my Luve is like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my Luve is like the melody
That’s sweetly played in tune.

Surrealism........................This Is Not A Pipes

One from the archives.

SURREALISM: A Magritte Mash-up

So...I decided to cut up and rearrange some of the master's work. If you want to see the three pieces by Magritte that I used look these up:

"The Portrait" 1935

"Melusine" 1952

Drawing for "Month of Grape Gatherings" 1959

Surrealism in the Park

SURREALISM on the LANDSCAPE

If you look real close, to the right of the horse tail, you will see the image of a fish head with an eye seeming to be breaking out of the ground as I used a piece of an Odilon Redon painting for the sky/land portion of the collage!

Surreal Sausages.

 I looked back at the surrealists for inspiration..my favourite were the simple ones such as an apple in front of a face…I went for “Frankfurter salad” a strange recipe in itself.

I also found an accidental one in a chopped up book…glued as found.

THEME: Surrealism or the Irrational Juxtaposition of Images

I just picked up a wonderful catalogue of a show of the works of Rene Magritte (Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris February 11-June 9 2003) and I am feeling inspired. Have fun. 

playing-cards: Suits You Sir....What a Card!

PLAYING CARDS -- That rascal Jack of Spades

 I wrote a poem for this one:

The Jack of Spades

 took a break from flirting with the maids --

When he smelled the raspberry tarts

 being baked by The Queen of Hearts!

Playing Cards......................House Of Cards

Playing Cards..........................The Queen Of Hearts

One from the archives. Using playings cards as ATC's.

A Pair of Cards.

 

THEME: Playing Card Collage

Have we had this one before? Your collage should have a playing card(s) in it.

Ready...set...shuffle up and create!

FRAMED: Cheers!

I've been playing around with a couple of "how-to" booklets about embroidery and lace and having fun juxtaposing images against them and I cut Milton Berle out of (?) cannot remember but there he was on my worktable and I liked him against the handkerchief so I decide to frame him!

Framed..................................The Lecture

framed: Sgt Bilko's Motor Pool Gallery

$10 a piece, of course....

Glass(es) Frame

From the Archives.

Nicely Framed

From the archives until I can thaw out and try to get creative. This morning our outdoor temperature was -21.7 degrees celsius and the indoor temperature of our living room on the first floor was 16 degrees celsius! We normally keep the house at 21 degrees celsius so you can imagine my fingers are not in the mood to cut and paste! Having another cup of tea now...

Frame of Frames

Now to find something to frame!

 

Framed................................The Game Of Bugdleums

I did this one for the last theme but wasa bit late adding it. Realised it had a frame so here it is!

Framed................................Triplets

From the archives.

THEME: Framed

Your collage must contain at least one example of something that has been framed. 

I leave it up to you to determine which definition of framed you want to use! ha ha

Bird Watching.......................Aviary ( Homage to Joseph Cornell )

I've made several homages to Cornell over the years - one of my favourite collagist/assemblagists.

bird-watching: Twitchers Inc.

THE BIRDS ARE WATCHING TOO...

I have a book of Victorian fashion and the young woman in the collage is identified as Florence Dean wearing a velvet hat with birds wings and an ostrich feather collar.

Hence angry attacking birds who do not want to become further embellishments on Florence's outfits!

Victorian hats featured bird wings and bodies due to a massive fashion craze for exotic feathers, symbolizing wealth, status and exoticism, with elaborate designs using rare bird parts becoming a status symbol, leading to massive bird slaughter until conservation movements eventually curbed the deadly trend.

Bird Watching…where have they all gone?

 I don’t seem to be able to comment again on your wonderful collages…birds can be hard to spot…they are sneaky little devils….BEHIND YOU!

Bird Watching..............................Bird House

THEME: Bird Watching

The other day on my Instagram feed a lovely story appeared from the BBC Archives. In 1961 a visit was paid to Bird Cottage, Ditchling, Sussex owned by Ms. Len Howard who was an avid bird watcher and caretaker of flocks. She authored a book "Birds As Individuals" (1952) a comprehensive study of bird behavior, intelligence and personalities. I am definitely going to get a copy. I am an avid bird watcher and I feed them during the long winter months. I am always delighted to see a migratory bird among the usual characters on my garden deck rails.

Green...............................Green Parrot Syndrome

It's a nasty affliction a bit like Crinkly Cockatoo disease.

Green Invaders

Green.............................Keep Out Of Greenland

The Curious Little Girl goes GREEN

 

I carefully cut "The Curious Little Girl (1860-64) out of the painting by Camille Corot (1796-1875) and placed her in a landscape of greenery and added three pieces from a book I love to use from time to time entitled SWATCHES (images of fabric patterns).

The Boys Book of Green

 

GREEN

It's that time of year again, at least for me, winter doldrums. When do they resolve? Why when spring begins to appear! Now is the time for a bit of green in our lives!  Craft a collage featuring this lovely, life renewing color. 

Resolutions .....................Make More Lists

New Year’s resolution

Time flies…hoping to eat more fruit..or was it more chocolate?.

Happy New Year to you all. X

 

resolutions: "Make More Art" & "De-Klutter" ATCs

Strategically, placing these around the house....see how it goes :D

I RESOLVE in 2026 ...

 Three ATCs for three resolutions:

Top: Make more time to sit and read which will take my mind and imagination places other than the grim reality we seem to be bombarded with these days!

Middle: Go out more often with my Panasonic Lumix camera and take photos of nature and random people -- street photography!

Bottom: Make sure I get those birthday cards in the post on a timely basis. I tend to make a lot of belated greeting cards!

I Resolve...........................To Make A List

From the archives -