playing around

with Picasa and Photoshop.

031013 Multiple exposure

I have a goal to learn digital collage using PS. But first I need to learn the basics (like how to layer!)

What's growing in San Juan Capistrano?

digital collage from photos taken in San Juan Capistrano

No Photography! 030613

playing with Picasa -  

Saturation and 1960s

warmify and museum matte

digital fun

Vessel

Playing with pattern.

Ticket Home

This didn't start out as a double page spread but it seems to have turned into one. 

Every once in a while I review Jane Davies book Collage Journeys. This piece is directly inspired by one of the exercises. The background is watercolor paint and bleeding from the previous page's markers. I used gesso and acrylic glazing liquid to tone it down. The vessel is acrylic paint on collage with a cover of glaze. Outlined  with charcoal pencil. Oil pastels added to background. It's very textured.

Staying on track with my collage-a-day challenge.

Decisions and a challenge

I think this piece is done ... however ...

Happy 1

I can't decide if I like it this way ...

or this way ... 

and my husband likes it this way ... but I don't.

Abstract/expressionism art creates such heavy decisions.

By the way, I decided to challenge myself in March to "A Collage A Day." For no particular reason other than I need to be pushed into creating each day. I recognize that on some days there will be no art time so I'll bend the rules a bit and create more than one piece on other days. Here is my progress so far:

0301. Vision 2013 (1 page of 2)

0302. Peace

0303 "Happy 1" from above.

Today is a "work" day and doctor's appointment ... so my collage just may be gluing something down on an index card ... and that's OK. The point is to do something each day.

col·lage

1.       Picture with pieces stuck on surface: a picture made by sticking cloth, pieces of paper, photographs, and other objects onto a surface

2.       Art of making collages: the art of making pictures by sticking cloth, pieces of paper, photographs, and other objects onto a surface

3.       Combination of different things