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Children’s collage finished

June 4, 2009 – 11:53 am

In the end, I opted to cut out the faces and collage them onto something else. I really wanted to incorporate the lovely green grass that came with the original picture, but it just didn’t work with the blue-green background I had created and the fruit imagery I wanted to use. I gave the collage [...]

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Collage in the making

May 12, 2009 – 1:24 pm

There’s a lot on my mind these days. I feel I am at crossroads with many opportunities in front of me, which is both scary and exciting. But it also means that, while I am weighing options, I am not spending as much time as I’d like making things. This is a collage in the [...]

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New background experiment

May 7, 2009 – 12:15 pm

These days, I am busy making backgrounds for a little secret present I am making for my husband’s birthday. This one is an experiment in distressed image transfer. I started out by gessoing watercolour paper on both sides, then painted one side with an Ivory White wash. After that I layered several washes in Sienna, [...]

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Three fave techniques from top collage artists

May 6, 2009 – 1:20 pm

Two personality traits define me more than any other—I am an obsessive compulsive accumulator of anything (books, ephemera, paper but also documents and even email); and I have a chronic inability to follow instructions. I have vague memories of being good at following instructions at school, but adulthood changed that irrevocably. Now I can’t follow [...]

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Away we go

April 10, 2009 – 3:27 pm

And we are off! We are going to spend Easter in northern Sardinia, where we are going to visit the home of Italian Independence War leader Giuseppe Garibaldi (who happens to be one of Niccolo’s heroes at the moment). We have a family story linked to Garibaldi, as my ancestors on my maternal grandfather’s side [...]

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