I loved reading about your experience at Meraki studio and seeing your beautiful outcomes Holly. I really enjoy working with paper collage, particularly painting my own papers to combine with other imagery. I am working on a small series at the moment and you have inspired me to share some of my process.
Collage is my preferred art form since my 20's. I was prolific back then creating a whole series on the objectification of women ironically using model pictures from M. I've since done several 100 day projects using collage. What i wanted to add is that i may conceive a color way or theme but I truly don't have a message in mind when i start. I just show up and discover the collage's meaning as it's birthed. And yes, never glue it down until your certain of it's layout.
PS, you had us do collage mood boards for our new blogsites back in your blog course 12 years ago. Still blogging.
Yes, we still do mood boards in my classes, I really believe mood boards, vision boards, these are all very powerful and help us to visualize our goals and dreams. Visualization is really powerful. I love that you enjoy collage, do you do collage still or have you paused?
Oh absolutely because... easy. I make collages and put wise letters in them for my wisdom lesson letters, a subscription i offer. Yet l don't know if I've ever used them as intentionally as in your class.
Whenever I visit a city away from home, I gather all kinds of papers that I come across in my travels and make a collage about my experience when I get back home. I enjoy looking through all my travel collages from time to time. I will also make collages with photos of my granddaughter. I'll take one photo and make a collage with it. I like to hang those on the refrigerator because they're quite playful.
I absolutely love doing collages! My current wall calendar gets pimped by me every month. Sometimes the background colour gives hints, sometimes I decide on a spesific theme.
And other times just free flowing letting my feelings guide me. Doing this is one of my happy places. 😊
This is such a good idea as well and keeps you consistent which I find is the hardest- consistently doing something I love - always „life“ is in the way...
I loved reading about your experience at Meraki studio and seeing your beautiful outcomes Holly. I really enjoy working with paper collage, particularly painting my own papers to combine with other imagery. I am working on a small series at the moment and you have inspired me to share some of my process.
Yes please do share, I'd love to see what you're creating too. :)
Collage is my preferred art form since my 20's. I was prolific back then creating a whole series on the objectification of women ironically using model pictures from M. I've since done several 100 day projects using collage. What i wanted to add is that i may conceive a color way or theme but I truly don't have a message in mind when i start. I just show up and discover the collage's meaning as it's birthed. And yes, never glue it down until your certain of it's layout.
PS, you had us do collage mood boards for our new blogsites back in your blog course 12 years ago. Still blogging.
Much gratitude and collage joy,
Shalagh
Yes, we still do mood boards in my classes, I really believe mood boards, vision boards, these are all very powerful and help us to visualize our goals and dreams. Visualization is really powerful. I love that you enjoy collage, do you do collage still or have you paused?
Oh absolutely because... easy. I make collages and put wise letters in them for my wisdom lesson letters, a subscription i offer. Yet l don't know if I've ever used them as intentionally as in your class.
Sounds soooo wonderful ❤️
Whenever I visit a city away from home, I gather all kinds of papers that I come across in my travels and make a collage about my experience when I get back home. I enjoy looking through all my travel collages from time to time. I will also make collages with photos of my granddaughter. I'll take one photo and make a collage with it. I like to hang those on the refrigerator because they're quite playful.
I love this idea ❤️
I absolutely love doing collages! My current wall calendar gets pimped by me every month. Sometimes the background colour gives hints, sometimes I decide on a spesific theme.
And other times just free flowing letting my feelings guide me. Doing this is one of my happy places. 😊
This is such a good idea as well and keeps you consistent which I find is the hardest- consistently doing something I love - always „life“ is in the way...