Faces In Collage

This is what I'm up to.

Coming Soon!!!!

a new online class

Faces In Collage

I will have all the exciting details very quickly.

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Do you have one of these?

I woke in the night remembering that I had this Jeep Collins hammered brass necklace. I had a piece that dangled from it and I don't even remember what that was.  

But look look look how perfectly it holds my pendant!

I'm not a big jewelry wearer, but I can do this. 

So perfect!

I still have several pendants available in my shop. 

All Norah'S Art Shop

And here is a site that has some variations of this necklace.

And here is an Etsy that has one.

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Collage Crazy

Sometimes, I start painting the face first.  This time I started with the background.  I stepped away from the desk and when I came back, my eye translated the green leaf as a bird.  That is what I love about collage.


Then I started painting the face and I got excited about purple lips.  And so it goes.  Purplish face.  That reminded me of my Faces In Technicolor class (still available). 


At some point, I saw the little green tip of a leaf under the purple bird as a bird head so I painted it and realized it was the whole bird.  That is what I love about collage. 


I think I said that. 
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Collage Obsessed Now

It's official. 

I am totally fasinated with collage. 

But I still don't like: 

collecting papers

storing papers

the mess of papers

Going now to clean the mess of papers.

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Another Collage in the works

I'm working on the inside cover of the record album.

Turns out it is the ladder and of course the circles that I find appealing about the magazine photo of the last post. 

I'm still working on this and I don't think you can tell but I used metallic paints again on her face......

which is my new favorite thing. 

Gotta go....

Have a great weekend. 

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More about collage

There is just something about this magazine photo that I like. I can't say what it is. But I have been staring at it all weekend. Maybe you like it too.  If so, I have left it HUGE and if you click on it you can capture it and save it to use in your next collage.


Before I share with you more about collage, I want to thank all of you you for the at-a-girl about my last collage painting.  You have no idea how your words feed me, warm me, and make me smile. 


I'll be brief now:  
1. I don't like the time spent trying to decide what collage papers I should glue down.
2. For that matter, I don't like the time spent collecting collage papers. 
3. I know there should be a certain amount of spontaneity.
4. If you don't have interesting collage papers, you can't make an interesting collage. 
5. I'm not crazy about the mess of papers.
6. I like the painting part and once I get the paint brush in my hand, all the uncomfortable stuff goes away.


So, after all that, I think the most important thing is having a nice mix of interesting collage papers.  
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And so, that's what I did.

Morning Art time today was a fabulous adventure.

(Although, I skipped my 1.5 mile walking in beauty) 

I could have probably kept fiddling with this but my time was up. 

I'm showing the collage again so you can see the changes which I think is very interesting and though you might think so too.

At some moment I thought it began to have a "Klimt" vibe to it.

A Klimt vibe in Norah'S sort of way.

This is painted on a 78 record album cover. I'll do the next collage on the inside. 

Can't wait.

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Oh, I forgot to tell you, I used just about all metallic paints.  Wish you could see it IRL.

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Collage in progress

 Believe me, I don't really know where I'm going with this. 

Just thought I would share this stage since I can't be a home playing ART.

I brought it to this desk in town but left the art-to-go-bag behind. 

I'm enjoying Katie's instruction and as ever trying my best to get more comfortable with collage. 

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Things that flutter forth

I have to tell you this.  It is another little story about inspiration.


She is from Thursday's Art-at-the-desk.  And I'm so proud that I pushed myself and  actually started on the first page in a new blank Strathmore Visual Journal (5.5' x 8in)
So proud because I have a hard time with white pages and especially the first one in a journal. 


But about the inspiration, I was all done except I hadn't actually finished the background.  Nothing was happening.  The flow was over. I had to pack up and head to my cozy art nest at home.  That's when a part of a butterfly wing fluttered forth from under stuff.  I heard that little voice that said, "just glue it down". So, I did. 


Friday morning while "walking in beauty", a place for exercise of the mind and body, I was on the sixth lap when I began thinking about the background again. I spotted a fence line bush with small leaves and I just snatched some as I went by.  The first thing I did was use them to stencil around and then I painted the little stalk of leaves with Italian sage green and stamped the leaf image around the background.   

That helped but the page still needed more. So I used the white gel pen.  About that time that little blue silk sari ribbon fluttered forth from under stuff.  Again, I immediately heard the voice that said, "attach it, don't think about it just attach it".  So, I did. 


Later, I realized the connection was more than color. It's about the delicacy of the silk and butterfly wing and they even share a tiny pattern.  The stitching is a connection to the cloth side of me.

When I returned to the office Friday morning, I found the other part of the wing on a different desk....fluttered forth....the voice.....and so, I did. 


When inspiration passes you or flutters forth....see it...hear it...use it.
♥ Sharon

Art at the desk

Yesterday, with my little art-to-go-bag and a little extra time at my desk in town, I enjoyed some fun techniques that Katie is presenting in her online class, Layered Impressions.   By the way, Katie has a book coming out by the same name,  Layered Impressions: A Mixed-Media Approach to Painting and Poetry.
I betcha, it will be just as good as her class.  
♥ Sharon