It’s Christmas in July! Well, for me it is, anyway. I’m working on a holiday collage gluebook. It will have 32 collage assignments for the month of December and new year’s day. It’s a holiday art journal that will be in full color with lots of vintage illustrations to inspire you. Each page has an …
2021 ATC art exchange
The second exchange of the year is underway, and it’s all about ATCs. The swap is open until August 15th. An ATC is an artist trade card. It’s a little piece of art on something the size of a standard playing card. In this exchange, we are creating cards with 4 ATCs on them, like …
Collage with wine labels
If you love vintage papers and vintage design, I’m sure you’ve noticed how beautiful wine labels can be. Maybe it’s even crossed your mind to think about collaging with a wine label or two. My husband often likes to have wine with his dinner, so we often have a bottle or two in the cupboard. …
An interest in aeroplanes
I never realized I had an interest in aeroplanes until I started creating lots of collages with them. Specifically, I find myself drawn to early planes from the WWI era. In the collage below, I used an image of a Curtiss plane as my focal point. Here’s another with a Curtiss image. Sometimes it’s …
The Take3 challenge
What if everyone gets the same three vintage images and is asked to create a collage with them. Would everyone’s pieces look the same? That’s the concept behind the Take3 challenge. Every month I provide a new set of 3 images for anyone to play with. A hashtag is included with the set so that …
