My latest collage in progress on my work table, September 8, 2012. Don't know what I'll call it. It has to do remembering, forgetting and death. I feel it needs some text.
This week, in keeping up with my big re-org plans, I tended to a couple of challenging projects in my studio: […]
Michelle Casey, "Namesake" (for MM), Collage/Mixed Media, 10 x 14 inches (approx.), April 2012
I recently finished my “Namesake” collage dedicated to Marilyn Monroe so I thought I’d share some more insights into life with my namesake with you. After all, a collage is never truly complete until we ponder its existence in […]
“Gifts from Heaven and Earth” (Dedicated to Arlene Margaret O’Rourke), Ruth Ann McClure, Mixed Media/Collage, 16 x 20 inches, 2012
Today, I take great pride in sharing “Gifts from Heaven and Earth” a commemorative Vision Board created by Ruth Ann McClure. A number of my spotlights have focused on students wishing for […]
Michelle Casey, "Making a Difference", Mixed Media / Collage, 7.25 x 11 inches, June 2012. Quote inspired by Mohandas K. Gandhi.
Recently, I assisted elementary school teacher Catherine and her grade six students with a collage project. After working throughout the year on a social issues theme with her class, she asked them […]
It’s been crazy busy here at Collage Your World! I can’t believe it’s already June! Here are some collage tidbits I’ve been saving for you!
Vincent Van Gogh: “Blossoming Almond Tree, Saint Remy”, Oil on canvas, circa 1890.
Ottawa Summer Exhibitions: David, Van Gogh & Me!
This summer our city is graced with […]
I’d like to invite you to shake up your collaging by thinking outside the box. Collaging doesn’t necessarily have to involve papers, scissors and glue. You can expand your collage repertoire by layering all kinds of materials. Today I propose we collage with books! Fiction or non-fiction. It doesn’t matter; the only tools you’ll need […]
Students, Brenda and Charlotte, sharing their journal pages, May 2012. Having students share their reflections about the process and discoveries they’ve made during collage journaling is a vital element of the workshop.
On a gorgeous afternoon last Saturday I held a collage journaling workshop in Carleton Place, Ontario. Charlotte, a former student, loaned […]
In Catherine's class we discussed Betye Saar's assemblage "Ragtime" (2005, 19" x 20" x 2") which references slavery, African-American music and the American Civil War.
Since April, I’ve been volunteering at an elementary school. It’s one of my business goals to research working with children because I’d like to offer workshops for them […]
Arranging different textures together with metal embossing is so much like collaging. One can arrange and affix them onto a canvas or a small wooden frame with heavy double-sided tape.
Recently when my good friend artist Wendy Southin asked me to assist her with a metal embossing workshop for teens, I jumped at […]
Connie Howes-Davidson's second journal page (Collage, 5 x 7 inches, February 2012) which was inspired by a favourite quilt. Quote: “A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.” Arsène Houssaye
Connie Howes-Davidson was lured to my Collage Journaling Workshop by her friend Ruby who caught my show at the […]
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