I just finished my Tuesday's work and am waiting on my grocery order to come. After that, I will feed myself and maybe load the dishwasher and ...decide if I need a short nap. LOL !!! Whether I do or don't, at some point I will move to my art table to play a while. My front porch still needs some work. I did get my few new flowers potted, so they are happy, but there are some other things that need moving around out there for the summer. I'm not sure if I will tackle that this evening or not, but time will tell that story, as it always does.
A couple of nights ago I made this Calm piece of collage art. All of the papers were painted, stenciled and/or pressed by me, except for the piece of a sticky note in the bottom left corner. It was a Thank You message from another artist for buying a piece of their work. It was just laying on the art table and seemed to fit in so....there it went.
Calm....not by paper designs, but by colors.
NOT Calm ! I made this messy piece to test how a paper reacted to being painted and glued. The canvas was a cheapo from Dollar General that I bought to test the size for something else I wanted to do. I wanted to see if the other design would fit in that space before I bought a better canvas to put it on. It worked, but then this canvas was left and so I decided to use it for the paper test. Since I'm an old girl, I get a soft back book from Medicare every year. The other week when my work computer was down, but I needed to stay in the general vicinity of it, I pulled boxes and bags of paper things over where I could go through them, throw away and organize.... and when I got to the book from 2023, I decided to pull the pages out to use for collage papers. I thought the paper felt right for painting.
At lunch that day, I quickly swished some blue and hot pink paint across it and left it there to dry so I could test the gluing part that evening. When it came time, I tore it to pieces and haphazardly glued some pieces on. Then I added some yellow paper I had made before that had some blue lines on it to balance it out. THEN.... I put a few bits of white paper that had black marks on it and scattered some black ink around.
It made me laugh, but for real, I see stuff like this for sale on the net all the time. I don't know if anybody buys it, but other artists put it up for sale all the same. It was fun to make, but what a funny mess! Turns out, the paper will work fine for painting and gluing! Yay!
Now that you're traumatized good and proper, here is another piece I made last week. It wasn't supposed to be this way, but this is the way it ended up. There are parts of it I really do like and other parts not so much. It still has a fun vibe to it overall I think.
....and last, another piece with a different look. The background paper is one I painted and stenciled on the gel press. I loved the way it came out. The center piece is part of a page that was in a book, maybe about Lewis and Clark. I then cut the black silhouette from the black area of a shiny book page. To top it off, I added a scant bit of turquoise markings in two places. You know this is not my normal style, but I am having fun now and then, trying out new ways of art play.
Well.... time for me to go. I see my groceries have been delivered and to the back porch again. I love delivery people, but I don't know why they don't look at the notes on the orders when they drop them off. Nothing is ever suppose to be left in the middle of the back deck.
