A Little Collage - Fill Her Nest

I made a little collage on canvas board this weekend. It was so hot yesterday that I needed to cool off by late afternoon. My studio called. I have had this image sitting on my work table for about a month. I added the bird nest digitally and printed it off and it just sat there. She is so thin and straight. I love how her head is turned looking at something other than the photographer. I painted and glued random paper then covered and wiped off gesso. I also gessoed and wiped the metal pieces. I wanted a sort of neutral look to them. Anyway, she's going to be attached to a journal cover.

Collages in Five Different Sizes

It has been a collage sort of day. I am in a swap in the Gluebots Yahoo group where we have to make a set of collages. They are to be a 4 by 6 inch collage, a 3 by 5 inch collage, a 4 by 4 inch collage, a 2 by 2 inch collage and an ATC. There is no theme. I worked on my set yesterday.

I have many of these sizes already made, but decided that I would start from scratch. Once you sort of get started you just sort of let it sweep you away. I enjoy this type of collage a lot. It is always interesting to see the results. I routinely cut up my "already read and won't look at again magazines". Yes I cut up my art magazines, too.I have a box that I store the images in and another I keep text and words in. This makes things move very fast. I see this as a great way to recycle my magazines. The pages that are not all cut up I use to glue on. You can never have to much scrap paper to glue and paint on.

Buttons Buttons - Who Made all of these?

For a few hours on Saturday night I became a button factory. One of my art friends has a Button Biz machine. Orleta very generously shares her machine with us, only charging us her costs for the button supplies. I made up most of the collages before hand and brought other suitable images to use for buttons. Sometimes just a wonderful piece of paper makes a stunning button.
This is a little closer view of some of the buttons. I think these are so fun. I love to pin them on a purse or trade for something with them. If you add a magnet to the back, they make really cute magnets for the art room. I made a couple this time to add to my dolls. Such simple things can make us so happy. Thank You Orleta!

2 by 2 inch Swap

One of my favorite Yahoo groups - The Gluebots - is having a 2 by 2 inch swap. We make ten and get ten back. No theme. I always make a few extra in case there are some I do not like. With these I was limited in materials as I have been away from home. Sometimes the challenge of limited materials makes the art work you do so much more inventive. I don't know if I met the challenge, but this is what I am sending off today to our hostess. I will say I love this size to work on.