le rouge et le vert (deux)

Source: contemporary magazines, scientific journals, postcards, and catalogs; all clipped before snipping, and stored in boxes labeled by color.

Now this one is more my style... not Christmassy at all.

The Cool Kids Are Back

This one is pretty Red & Green I think.
Collage made together with Sabine and Lynn, so-called tricollages. These ones are made with magazine covers which brings me to sources and storage.
I found these boxes with old magazines from the 30, 40, 50 and sixties a few years ago on local book markets.
I keep a lot of them under my bed;))
I'm also like Angie, have a lot of snippets already in transparent plastic folders with randomly subjects like 'figures seen on the back', 'figures smoking', 'sitting in chairs', 'crippled' etc. etc.
Also have book by themes, piles of anatomy, boxes full of colors and patterns, pretty chaotic but I always know where to find something .... having said that I couldn't find a picture of all those magazine piles I once made (to much photo's on my comp., lol).

le rouge et le vert (un)

The title is a joke on Stendhal's novel Le rouge et le noir.

Source: All images from the Artful Home catalog, stored in a 6" x 9” white envelope labeled "Glass Balls, etc." in a large grey box labeled "Little Things."

the birth of planet earth

From my deepest archives (circa 2009), when all my playing with paper took place on the outside of padded mailers for books. (We had WAY too many books, so I was de-accessioning like mad through paperbackswap.com.) This is the only book-mailer collage in the style I was struggling to invent that was separate from the computer-generated address label. It's pretty typical of my rough-hewn early collage efforts: more drawing and doodling than actual collage elements.

In terms of sources, it's amazing to me how little has changed. I was into stickers, so that's where the Earth came from. I was just starting to collect postcards: the lotus was from a postcard in a bulk batch from Pomegranate. The vine-cum-umbilical-cord came from an advertisement in a magazine in my dentist's office, which I surreptitiously tore out and made off with it. =laugh=

The Earth Mother I drew, colored with markers, then glued to a piece of red construction paper. (Her right hand was supposed to be holding the vine/cord, but it didn't work out quite right.) The border was a doodle I'd already done on a piece of white printer paper. I colored it with markers and glued onto the rest of the piece.

When I say "little has changed," I mean that even today, my sources are junk mail, catalogs, contemporary magazines, stickers, postcards, colored paper, and my own drawings (only when I can't come up with what I need in any other fashion). Plus, a few years ago, I started collecting "cutter books" in themes like animals, the circus, magic, and so on. I love Taschen--their catalog and their books!

And I still steal images, and sometimes whole magazines (!), from the waiting rooms of my dentist and my doctors.

But I don't have any vintage materials, nor do I go to yard sales or library sales to find them. I envy those of you who have stacks of old magazines and stuff. No one in my family saved those sorts of materials, and I'm too much of a recluse to go out looking for them... =sigh=

Curios Thing 240

3 pages from Curios Thing 240 which has kept me away from this blog for a while. 16 pages of A5, folded and stapled. Limited edition going out to family and friends over the festive period. I try and make one every year - have done since the mid 80's when I was heavily involved in mail art network. Not had much time for it over the last few years - blogs taking over but nice to get back into finding amusing items that might fit this small format. Other small 'zines over the last 30 years or so have been U-MAK-IT, Christmas Catalogs, Curious Dog, Curious Snail, Curios Nahpro ( with Art Nahpro ), Curios Families ( with Roger Radio & Family ) Curios Radio ( with Roger Radio AKA Roger Stevens ) and so forth. Will add a link to the online digitised version when I get round to it.

THEME: Sources &/or Storage (Open Theme)

Since people are busy this month, here's another open theme week. Make any sort of collage(s) you wish. Then, if you feel inspired to do so, tell us about its source (where you found the paper) and/or about how you store it in your studio (stack in the corner, shelves with boxes, plastic bags of pre-snipped clippings, etc,). But if you don't want to put any words under your collage(s), that's fine, too

If having no theme isn't giving you any ideas, go with the Winter Holiday colors of red and green, a well-known combo used by Vincent Van Gogh, a compatriot of Josephine.

Stay warm! Have fun! =smile=

wacko shapes

Tools used: stencils. For each shape, I turned the paper upside-down and used a wide variety of stencils (alphanumeric, geometric, etc.)--the stencil images stuck to each other to create weird shapes.