I’m still feeling very enthusiastic about tearing up bits of paper and gluing them to stuff. I dug a sketch of some redbud leaves out of my sketchbook and transferred it to a gel print I made recently. When I first finished collaging the leaves and drawing the veins in, it looked like this:...
Torn Paper Collage & Working with Leaf Prints – The 100 Day Project, days 31-45
I had a pretty big slump most of last week or so and wasn’t feeling the love for this project, hence the lack of update. I still haven’t missed a day, but there were some days where I did a pretty minuscule amount of work on it. I’ve been spinning while I watch an...
Dictionary Birds: The 100 Day Project, days 22-27
With the weather alternating between cold-and-gray and somewhat-warmer-but-rainy-and-muddy, it was time for some warm colors. I did another big round of gel prints and used some of them in a collage of dictionary birds. I’ve been pretty fond of printing onto sewing pattern tissue lately. I’ve been scavenging tissue from a thrift-store pattern for...
Mixed-Media Collage vs Lack of Confidence: The100DayProject, days 16-22
I tend to have a pretty intense lack of confidence in my work. Part of the reason I wanted to focus on monoprinting and mixed-media collage for my 100 Day Project is that I want to get more confidence with both. Previously I had a tendency to hide my monoprints in a background layer...