…..thanks Becca for hosting Sunday Trees
The snow has just started in earnest. View from my back window this morning.

…..thanks Becca for hosting Sunday Trees
The snow has just started in earnest. View from my back window this morning.

…..another collage for the ‘colour plunge’ assignment
I’m really enjoy making these small collages. Randal Plowman has written The Collage Workbook and has set out 50 exercises to build up our collaging skills. Evelyn Flint and her sister are encouraging artists to join them on their year long art journey by making a different collage each week using Plowman’s prompts.
This is the third collage I’ve made for this one prompt ‘colour plunge’. The idea is to create a monochromatic collage using mostly one colour. Todays collage uses mostly blue greens. I used some of my text papers and finished it off with paint on bubble wrap that I printed on top.

…..day 34 and challenge #5 from The Collage Workbook
This week (I’ve finally caught up) Randel Plowman asks us to choose a colour and make a monochromatic collage using various shade of that colour. I’ve made two. The first one is mostly reds and the second one contains a variety of pinks. I’ve already starting using my art papers that I made yesterday. Check out Evelyn Flint’s colour plunge. They’re amazing.


…..day 33
Today’s class with Carla Sonheim was to create art papers using text. I enjoyed this process. I used watercolour paper and a variety of pens and ink to create these papers. I found a couple of poems in my Roald Dahl Treasury and I copied them onto some of the sheets. The idea is to fill the paper with words and try not to leave too much white space. I plan to use some of these in my next collage assignment.



….thanks Cee for hosting the Which Way Photo Challenge
It’s Groundhog Day. Which way did Wiarton Willie from Ontario go? Back in his hole. Six more weeks of Winter for us. Ugh!!!!!!!!

Not surprising. It’s freezing outside and the forecast calls for more snow this weekend.

….day 32
I’ve gone back to doing more collage. This is from the Collage Workbook by Randel Plowman. It is assignment #4 where you apply colour to a collage that is primarily black and white. In the first one I added some touches of red using red paper and a red photograph and in the second one I added blue using a highlighter and chalk pastels.
Thanks to Evelyn Flint for starting this weekly collage challenge and introducing me to Plowman’s book.


….thanks Nancy Merrill for hosting a photo a week






…..how would you interpret beloved?
On our 42nd wedding anniversary.

Sisters-in-law

Mother and Daughter

Newly Weds

More Newly Weds

Fathers and Daughters



Puppy Love
…..Day 31
Carla Sonheim posted a video about Chris Crites who paints mug shots on paper bags. I googled ‘mug shot images’ and found hundreds of photo of actual mug shots. Here is the one I chose to draw. Now I’m debating whether I should add some colour to it. What do you think?

….thanks to Cee for bringing us the letter x for the fun foto challenge
Texture
Exhausted
Sandbox
Mixing
