Recently, a person in my Vintage Gluebooks and Pages Facebook group posed a question about the purpose of creating. She said that it was very clear to her the purpose of creating scrapbooks, for example, but wasn’t clear about junk journals and gluebooks. She wanted to know “if something doesn’t have a purpose, why make …
Canvas Art – French Papers
A few weeks ago I got message in my inbox from my local art museum. They said that they are organizing a fundraiser in May that will be an exhibit of art, with the individual pieces up for auction. They were asking artist to donate ready-to-hang art for the event. I decided I will create …
Using collage to create meaningful art
One of the collage-related topics people mentioned in the survey I sent out at the beginning of the year, asking what their interests were, was the idea of creating meaningful art. Several people expressed the idea that they wanted to create art that held a deeper meaning than art that simply looked “pretty”. They wanted …
Learning from example
I’m a firm believer in learning from example. I totally love the idea of copying a style or technique until you learn from it, and your own style emerges. Since we are in the middle of the current postcard swap on “home”, I had been looking for some inspiration to get me motivated for creating …
Where do you find vintage ephemera?
When you are beginning in collage art, or when you start to get familiar with it, you often develop an idea of the kinds of papers you’d like to work with. For those of us who like the vintage style, it can be hard to find what you are looking for. Where do you find …
