See the previous “Colors and Lines” post for the backstory here. This one is painted in cool shades of green, with bits of red, yellow, white, and pink. The black form was made by dropping India Ink on the paper and blowing through a drinking straw to push the ink around. It’s formed these wonderful […]
Recently, I was doing some collages and wanted a way to add a fine dark line element to them. Something that looked like it was drawn but not so…controlled…as a line drawn with graphite or pen. So, being a former seamstress, I fired up the old sewing machines and ran some free-form lines of stitching […]
This small collage had me thinking of a typical morning in Marc – sun coming up through the cold air, trees still bare, and the snow melting into gray slushy piles. This is 6×4 inches and is made of various papers with a few lines of top stitching.
During the 2010 election campaign, I got so much literature from people running for office – it was piled up in my mailbox, hung on my door, scattered in my landscaping – that I got fed up with it. So I tore it all up and made a collage out of it. It is now […]
Spring Omen is a collage made from bits of paper, a photo, some leaves, and a few lines of machine stitching. I have entered it into the Hudson Society of Artists 2011 Members Show.