Remember the French Journal Belle Rose fabrics that I posted about last week. Well they have inspired not only a bout of collaging creativity but a whole pile of delicious mess all over the studio floor. You know it’s good when it’s everywhere!
Here are some close-ups of the two A2 sized collages that I made. One was a pink theme and another blue.
The French Journal Belle Rose fabric has lots of images of birds and flowers laid over old postcards and snippets of writing, geometric designs and beautiful paintings.
I have two drawers, two boxes, a basket and an old portfolio full to bursting with lovely papers, snippets of wrapping too nice to throw away, fancy packaging labels from things we’ve eaten, chinese newspaper…you get the picture.
I have paintings which didn’t work out in their entirety which I cut up, like these quails eggs above.
And some images I scanned from my sketchbooks onto cartridge paper to keep the hand painted feel to them.
It was really relaxing to make an assemblage like this because I usually work on a very different way.
And you know what they say about a change being as good as a holiday. This has been a creative mini-break!
