I’ve been keeping a schedule which was one of my goals for this year. Not perfect yet but a start. Another start is getting back to a sketch every day and stones. Here are two small, 4x4 in, stone pieces finished.
As promised, here are the two small ones from that free collage workshop I wrote about last week. These are also 4x4 in. I didn’t realize it until I looked at the photo but the vintage paper on the right will be 100 years old on the 27th of this month.
One concept she was teaching was
pick papers you love for your collage based on what we had done in the
class. Since I had picked colors that aren’t
part of what I normally gravitate toward I wasn’t in love with any of them,
vintage excluded, but I did like some way better than some others and I think
that’s close enough and a good rule to follow. There are a couple shows coming up so I need to
get busy doing more of these.
What else, daily sketching, so far I'm sticking to it.. I finally realized the for me, an art journal is part art and part journaling with the journaling being primary. So, I’m back to doing some morning sketches and sometimes a bit of collage paper in the journal to separate out spaces to write. At the end of a studio day I sit with that journal and write about what I did or did not do that day. The hats are one subject. That started with the one I posted last week. Here are a couple more…
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