Good Morning!... or at least it is here while I am typing this. It's Sunday, it's sunny and it's COLD! Of course, if it has to be cold, at least the sunny helps a little.
Isn't the above a fun artsy photo with the ink bottles? I like it myself. For some reason, I like taking photos of my art desk when something is in progress and that is what happened here.
Below shows more of my experiment with taking a strip of amazon packing paper, gluing random scraps of collage paper to it and then shading it a bit with different colored inks. You can see here the small test I did a couple of weeks back that I showed you and one I worked on about a week ago much larger. Originally, the little one was supposed to be a test to mimic an art scroll I had seen another artist make. I enjoyed the test and the larger one too, but for real, even though the backing paper is thin, by the time you add the gluey papers to it and they dry, it is really too stiff to easily roll into a scroll, so I didn't! After the big one was done, I wondered what the heck I was going to do with it and so this temporary idea emerged. I put a bulletin board push pin in the wall and used an office clip to hang it. I thought it was pretty clever. Anyway, just a few minutes ago I put some tape on the original small tester and stuck it on the wall beside it for this photo, just to show the difference in the size of the small test strip and the larger one. I will take the little one down when I go back in there.
It was fun to create, but I'm not sure what the future holds for the idea, if any.
Last weekend I told you about my dead car battery, the Triple A jump off and the ride around to build the battery up. This past Friday was the first time I got back out. After work there were a few errands to run, so I got presentable for public mingling, crossed my fingers and went out to the car. Happily, it started right away with no hesitation. I went to Walgreens to get my drugs and waited in the pickup window line a LONG time... but that was ok, I wasn't in a hurry. When I left there, I went to check out a new Dollar Tree store that I had found accidently on my drive last Saturday. It is not far from me, but I hadn't been over in that area for a while and didn't know it was there. I got there fine, went in bought about $7 dollars worth of random things, went back out to the car and .... when I started it, it came on, but sounded like it was running rough for a second or two and turned off! What ?? I did it several times and found if I kept my foot on the gas just a little, it would not turn off. Sheesh! So that is how I headed to my next point, riding the brake a little with the gas pedal slightly pushed in. You know that is sort of dangerous as one little slip up on the brake and you could go lurching forward into who-knows-what.... but that was the only way to make it work, so I did it and hoped for the best. Of course you would think I would head straight home right?... no... because the next and last stop was a drive through of the BBQ place 2 doors down for their Friday night fish plate. LOLOLOL...! Priorities and all that ya know. At least since it was a drive through, I didn't need to turn off the car and fortunately there wasn't really a line, so I babied it through.
Yum yum... right ?! It's a combo of small callabash shrimp and fried flounder and it was really good. They have good hush puppies and I never eat more than a couple of fries. Truly, it is way too much food to eat all at one time anyway.
I had put a bag of trash in my trunk before I left on my errands, so rode around to the bins to drop that in and I left the car running to do that. Thankfully it didn't turn off while I was out of it and then I went around to my Uncle's house mailbox (not the one the postal company uses) and left my rent check. I also left the car running to do that and it didn't turn off.
I'm hoping that was just a little glitch, some trash in the line or whatever and I'm hoping it running all that time afterwards let it correct itself, but we'll see in an hour when I attempt to go out and go to my Mom's for the afternoon. I'd keep my fingers crossed, but it's hard to type that way.
So, the below is my version of collage art wrath. Not real wrath mind you, but humorously, that is what I was thinking when I tore the red paper in strips and put it across this very small collage. You know you see movies or the such about an artist taking a knife through a painting when they are mad that it doesn't go anywhere or they are mad at someone else or they take a bucket of red paint and dash it all over their painting. The collage I was trying to work on started out with nice paper designs, but I never could quite get it to land to my satisfaction, so there was this other red scrap just laying there and instead of just stopping and letting it go, I tore the red paper into strips and glued them over the renegade collage. It wasn't really wrath though and I was grinning as I did it. I showed THAT piece, didn't I???
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I haven't worked on much of any serious pieces lately. Last weekend I mostly cleaned up and reorganized things around my art table area. It doesn't sound fun, but it kind of is, because I am still spending time in my creative area and that is where I am the happiest these days.
I do still play in my art journals, trying new things or processes. The funky city skyline in this one is all one piece, cut out of a collage paper creation I like to do with scraps, where I take a bunch of scraps and glue them randomly to another paper (sounds familiar?)... but then I use THAT paper as collage paper. That is what I did here and then added some yellow dots for window light.
Sometimes I try something in a journal and never really expect it to end in anything close to a finished design and then sometimes later I go back and see if I can turn it into something. That's what I did here. The blue and background purple and white were there and I went back later and added the green scraps with circles and some green paint around the messy edges. I at least can say that I really like those colors together, blue, purple, bright green.
The other morning when I got up to get ready to walk to work (in the next room) I noticed the light from my dresser lamp was shining through this glass balloon and making a neat blue reflection on the wall. Of course I grabbed my phone and took a few shots of it while wondering why I hadn't noticed that before. Where have I been??? Anyway, here it is.
I've shown some of my "very mini" collages before. I never understood tiny art although a lot of artists make some version. Once I played in some scraps one time though and made a few, I found the process and size a fun challenge. I have a lot of them now and some I really love. I even have them in clear sleeves to protect them, but I'm not sure what for. One day I am hoping for an idea to fall in my head on what extra fun things I can do with them. Until that day, now and then, I still make them.
I had a really neat sheet of collage paper that I made that was bright and wild. The other night, I made one of these tiny collages and then another and on each one, I used a punched circle from the wild paper. They were bright and colorful and happy, so I made one more to go with them. That is their common thing, the punch circle from the wild paper.
One last page from my art journal. I saw a youtube video where an artist used this general design for every day of a 100 day art challenge a couple of years ago. She had so many beautiful papers in every color and hue and she would use the same general color category for about a week making totally different pieces each day. One week might be in blues and contrasting neutrals or pinks or greens or reds or all neutrals or black and white. By layering the complementary papers, she really did end up with some beautiful pieces. She did vary at what height she put the horizontal pieces, some lower and some more centered. She said some people (or a person) gave her guff about making crosses. I found that odd, but still, she said her inspiration had been kimonos ! I understood the kimono thing after she said that as I have a small souvenir kimono from Japan that is shaped just like this and has lots of colorful designs on it. I myself had thought they were crosses when I first saw them, so to me they were and I loved them as crosses. I went directly to my journal and tried my hand at a similar one and this is what I came up with. I liked how it came out.
Ok, that is all for this hodge podge morning. I will do a very quick read through for typos, but If I missed some, I hope you still know what I was trying to say. It is time for me to get presentable and go to Mom's..... if my car starts!
Hope you are all doing well.
Love you !
Jacey
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