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This is a page spread from a recently-completed collaborative artist book by Sabine and me called "Double Vision."  Sabine has posted a lovely little video of all of the pages if you're interested, here.

What Happens When You Fall Down the Wrong Rabbit Hole

The Prinicpal Ballerina at Home With Her Friends

The interior is from a mid-century magazine advertisement.  The figures are from Diaghileff's Russian Ballet circa 1916.  The costumes were designed by Leon Bakst.

The Blacksmith and His Wife At Work

I made this collage for no particular reason some time ago.  But I think it is appropriate for the challenge.  I am sure cooking in the blacksmith's quarters would result in food smelling a bit horsey!

The beautiful painting is by Sir Edward Landseer and is entitled "The Blacksmith", 1875.

The housewife is from a vintage magazine ad.

House of Ten Cats

 

You can bet Keith Lemon doesn't live here!

Thanks to Henri Matisse for

"The Interior at Nice" 1923

Joan's Perfect Coffee Made Ernie As Happy As The 'Two In A Canoe' Behind Them

 

Here's one more from pages of Volume 1, The Encyclopedia of Photography.

The background is a photo by Irving Penn entitled "Two In A Canoe".

The couple making eyes at each other demonstrate something or other about a good photograph.

While Scuba Diving, Jennifer Encountered the Famous Triplet Brothers ~ Terry, Thomas & Tony

 

This week has been kind of hectic and I am happy to get this collage off!

I own Volume One of The Encyclopedia of Photography and have used bits and pieces of it in numerous collages.  I prefer working with images that are printed on matte versus glossy stock and although the volume contains some glossy images the bulk of the book is printed in black & white on matte paper.

In The New Year I Resolve...

 

Not much to say about this one.  I think we've all been here.

Happy New Year my fellow Kollage Kit collagists!

Caroline Ponders the Difference Between a Square Prism and a Cube

The most beautiful Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton (22 March 1808 - 15 June 1877) was an English feminist, social reformer and author.  The man and the cubes are from a vintage arithmetic book.

Make A Joyful Noise!

It's the image I created for our holiday card.  That's Harvey the Cockapoo on violin, husband Ted on harpsichord and yours truly belting out a Christmas carol!  Happy Holidays my fellow collagists.  All the best in the coming new year!

The Smell of Fried Chicken Came Wafting Up the Stairs

I could not believe my good fortune while paging through a LIFE magazine from March, 1958.  A full page advertisement for Swanson's Quick-Frozen Chicken featured "a trio" of the yummy looking stuff on forks.  I then laid my hands on my vintage book of black & white photographs that I like to use as background and voila!

The Trio Sailed Until They Reached The Lone Cypress Tree

I have a book of black & white photographs of the United States coasts.  The black & white silhouette of a Cypress Tree is on a beach in Carmel, California.  The bathing beauty is a vintage porcelain figurine.  The two gents in a dinghy are from a children's book about sailing.

Women With Wings

The dancer with wings is Anna Pavlova as a Dragonfly.  A vintage Barbie doll dressed as a Flight Attendant (I believe one of the first Barbie dolls--I cut this image out quite a while ago and don't remember).  The little bit of reproduction Victorian scrap from a Dover book has the word "PEPPERY" on it.  And of course that's a nice image of an angel.

Left Over Combo

I had a real problem with this theme.

Sure I have a lot of images that are already cut out (and put in boxes to be used at a later date) but I don't consider them left overs -- like scraps.  (And I always clean my work table when finished with an image so I tend to throw the paper scraps into a recycle bin.)

I wanted to truly use scraps.

Luckily I found a bit of striped paper that had been ripped into an oval (don't remember doing that on purpose!) and a fashion illustration that had a corner chewed off of it and although the flowers were carefully snipped, I considered them scrap so here is my "Left Over Combo" (that I pasted onto a portion of solid color cardboard stock that was left over from making another collage.)

relief

The Rubenesque woman in the collage is Frances Rockefeller King, an aspiring actress, snipped from Vanity Fair magazine, March 1900. The ad for bras for large busts is cut from a circa 1960s movie magazine.  The word "relief" was sitting on my work table and seemed to belong in this image.

Oak Floors

I cut the long ad for OAK FLOORS for Everlasting Economy from my trusty July 1923 "The House Beautiful" magazine.  Nude woman is Dover clip art (she was laying on the work table for quite awhile, just waiting to make an appearance in one of my collages!)  Spoil Youself is type from ???  It was a bit of scrap on the table.

The Age of Invention

The black & white background is from a Whitman Creative Art Book entitled "Print Art".  Woman is snipped from a 1928 Good Housekeeping magazine.  The various pieces of clip art including the illustration of the "Cold Air Machine of the Paris Morgue" are from Scientific American magazines circa 1887.  (I've had these for years and finally have the nerve to cut them up!)

At The Sea

 

Background black & white photo from a book about the ocean.  I added the breaching whale.  Circle with ship is from an ad -- that was the view through the porthole of another ship.  I added the Blow Fish (from a vintage National Geographic).  Orange is from an ad for Gilbey's Vodka.  Pretty woman in a towel clutching a circular orange cake of soap is from a 1923 House Beautiful ad for bathroom fixtures.