This week's challenge at Creative Wednesday is Row Houses, and the catalyst at Creative Therapy is What Do I Collect? . This journal page is for both, so I guess today is a Creative Therapy Wednesday. My husband calls me a bag lady because I collect A LOT! majolica, coffee cans, magazines, Staffordshire, anything with roses, art, fabric, papers, old books...Last Sunday, like the good mother she is, Ava took Magenta and Amarylis to church, while I spent the morning in my own sanctuary, my studio. When she came home Ava brought me a prize: a book from the church rummage sale. Whenever I'm out thrifting I'm always on a search for books with illustrations I can use in my collages. So I decided to challenge myself and see if I could do a collage using nothing but this one book, and here's what I came up with, using eight different pages from the book. (Okay, fine. I lied; the butterfly wings came from a biology textbook, the flowers are from napkins, and the checkerboard is from my scrap drawer.) At the very last minute I tried to glue a Buddha head on the Madonna, but Ava wouldn't let me!
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Great collage. What a sweet sister to bring prizes and presents. And yes you must glue something down fast when you get such presents so as not to be tempted to hoard.
Ava is a sweetie!(although she woudl deny that)
I'm trying to envision it with Buddha's head but it's too perfect to change! What a great sister to bring you a book filled with collage goodies.
I love your bold and wild approach! Colours my day when I pop over to visit you!! I always say I don't 'like' kids, but whenever I'm asked to help out at local workshops, I have the BEST time with them! Could I borrow the jester hat, d'you think?!!!
Your collage just looks so seamless and effortless - wish I could pop over for a quick lesson!!! LOL
Dawn
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Alberta IS bold and wild; that's why I go to church, to get her prayed up for the week, and to make sure Magenta and Amaryllis don't hop an express train to teenage vice.
You are all too kind; I really wanted to see if I could inspire Alberta into a kind of religious mania. I knew it would be interesting.
Hello again... I have just spent some time catching up with your last 6 posts and wow i do love your work sooo much and wish i could produce just one piece like yours then i think 1 piece wouldnt be enough for me...you inspire me soo much and one day i will have a try at your style.
thanks for sharing.
chriss x
love this! wow, what a sweet sissie...
This is funny I always call my daughter bag lady...seems like she is always bringing something home in her many cloth bags. Colorful and fun!
Hugs Giggles
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