Another colagragh

 Life documented is leaning towards technique this year and so we were doing tape/paper colograph this time. Definitely not a technique that I was enamoured with!

Fabric like medical tape/ lace on double sided tape/ masking tape + diecut lacy square

Salvaged patina oxide ink brayered onto the tapes& printed 

Grey acrylic paint 

Torn into strips and woven , quote written on a label 

And as a very last minute make….

I rustled up this one yesterday afternoon before I went to meet friends as I had just discovered that it was his 70th birthday today!

It’s still February!

 I’m glad that this month has been a little slower apart from the fact that I have had pneumonia! I’ve been weary due to the antibiotics but it’s been a great reason to be creative. 

I’ve been doing more work in my “Fragments “ journal, keeping up with the daily prompts in another one that I want to fill up, working on the “add an item a day “ which is now finished as is the companion piece that I created from a failed collage piece - I used some Lavinia Stamps advertising images as the colours were perfect for the backgrounds that I had created  

Art prompts galore pages are done 

Drywall tape/black/game piece 

Multiple stencils/paper doily/drips 

And a cute little book from the “Fringed Flip Book “ course (free) with B B HENRY (bbhenryart.com) which was fun!

Fragments course

 So I signed up for a few free courses last week and have started working on 2!

Fragments with Francisca Nuñes is proving to be a whole lot of fun …. It’s going to be a great place to keep all the little things that I don’t want to part with, tags & mixed media postcards that I have received…

So I’m going to share the covers and spine all done with recycling:-)

Outside of cardboard box: gesso + distress ink in Seedless Preserve & distress oxides in weathered wood & rustic wilderness, TCW Labyrinth stencil with old gold acrylic, Tim Holtz Tarnished Brass stain for the splatters.

Under paper on the inside with the spine reinforced by masking tape.

The Spine is a piece of heavy linen that I dyed on a City & Guilds course who knows when! On a later course i stencilled some gold paint on it. You can also see that the signatures have been sewn in using Caron thread (mulberry).

3 signatures made from papers collected/ made/ given by friends that I have been “precious “ about but no longer!

I’ve started to add some bits inside, in fact the 1st signature is well on the way to being done.

Halfway through the month & more!

 Well it seems like time is marching on ever faster, here we are more than half way through February already!

I have another CMP page:

I have done a few more pages in my “altered book “

Across on Facebook I’m also still doing Art Prompts Galore and this is the progress so far on the “156 prompts “ so 3 per week 

I can also now share the valentines card that I made using the new distress ink Scorched Timber 

I’m also working my way through 4 free classes that I signed up for but I’ll save that for another day! I’m off to medicate… pneumonia has been diagnosed….

Time marches on

 So the prompt for February’s first spread came out just after the recycling was collected thus ensuring that I did not have any cardboard to make a collagraph but ever resourceful I decided to go with a hand carved stamp I did a few years ago based on an earring that I had bought from an art student. 

I then used papers leftover from an online class + 1 strip (swirls on the left)   So I still managed to make this one about recycling!

I acquired an old hardback poetry book not long ago which I wanted for the cover for a project…. I decided that I didn’t want to waste the pages that I had removed and so decided that I would decorate the edges with scraps and add some coloured images. So far I’ve got 30 borders done & 2 stamped and coloured…

First one is a robin 

Then further into the book is a field mouse 

I have a Daisy border and know which stamp is going on there!

Into February already

 So let’s do the final Colour Me Positive for January where I used some Moos from my #100days of a few years ago 

And we can follow up with the first one for the shortest month….

I’m actually quite enjoying working on a larger format (A4) after the time that I spent on 5x8.