A Secret, Mixed Media/Collage ATC Folding Book (Cover), May 2011
Last month, Wendy Southin won a chance to trade an Artist Trading Card (ATC) with me and I was elated! Although we’ve been part of the same ATC group for a couple of years now, we’ve never actually traded cards. You see instead […]
Princess in the Making, Mixed Media Journal Page, April 29 2011
Well, I was all set to give you my next tip on collaging textures, when my good friend, Elaine Coombs, emailed me to ask what I thought of the Royal Wedding … excited by sharing my thoughts with her, my left brain […]
Vision Board Sneak Previews (top left to right) Nicole Beaudin (Desrosiers), Sarah Bentley; (mid left to right) Maggie Jordan, Leslie Ross; (bottom left to right) Charlotte, Lisa Bentley, April 2011
I had the great pleasure of meeting Maggie Jordan last year […]
March Reflections, Mixed Media/Collage ATC Folding Book (Cover), March 2011
Continuing from last week on the subject of Artist Trading Cards (ATCs)…
Joining an ATC group can be a lot of fun and anyone can start a group – not just artists! The following are a few tidbits to familiarize you […]
ATCs Monika Seidenbusch (left); Christine Henri (centre); Michelle Casey (right) 2007
I discovered Artist Trading Cards (ATCs) in 2007 when an artist organization I belonged to invited a local ATC artist to speak about the subject. Along with her came three massive albums of cards she’d collected. I lover of small works, I […]
Olive Jones' Vision Board, November 2010, 16 x 20 inches
If I didn’t know any better, I’d swear my friend Olive Jones might just be a distant relative of the famed archaeologist/adventurer Indiana Jones! She’s always off gallivanting somewhere across globe digging up amazing facts for her latest research paper! Olive […]
Maggie Jordan's Vision Board, November 2010, 16 x 20 inches
I had the pleasure of meeting Maggie Jordan, a participant, in my Vision Board Workshop last November at Dragonfly Dreams Studio. I was a bit nervous for her when she arrived at the workshop unsure of how her vision board would […]
Untitled, Collage Journal Page, February 11, 2011
Yesterday, I gave a visual journaling workshop at my friend/artist Wendy Southin’s studio: Dragonfly Dreams. Here’s a fun exercise we tried using recycled bits of material from our daily lives to create journal pages. This method was derived from the work of twentieth century German Dada* […]
Untitled, Mixed Media Journal Page, November 27 2009
Here are a few exciting ways to play with text and numbers in your collage and mixed media art:
1. Create text using “chance”: cut out words from newspapers, magazines or books. Place them in a bag and […]
Ancient Wrath, Collage, October 2010, 9×12 inches, by Andrea Harrison
Andrea Harrison and I go way back to high school. Every now and again over the years we’d bump into one other and update each other on the paths our lives were taking. I soon discovered that Andrea, a Project Manager who works […]
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