I’m sometimes asked who inspires me. I have a list of people whose work in collage art, particularly vintage collage art, really inspire me. The first person I want to mention, and probably the person who has most influenced my love of collaging vintage papers, is Mary Green. Who is Mary Green? I discovered Mary’s …
Vintage Gluebooks and Pages
You’re invited to join an art group in Facebook, where we make collages made with vintage or vintage-inspired elements. Over a year ago in May of 2017, I began a group on Facebook called Vintage Gluebooks and Pages. I created it as a place where people who were interested in collage art could be encouraged …
A Day at the printer’s fair
I’ve been waiting for the printer’s fair at San Jose History Park to happen this spring for quite some time. Over the last few years I’d heard there was a fair hosted by the San Jose Printer’s Guild, but I never managed to make it. This year I actually put a note in my calendar …
The Eclectic-page notebook
Sometimes it’s the background paper that creates the initial spark in me for making a collage, so I decided that I wanted a notebook of a bunch of random papers for collage art. A couple of years ago I bought a used Zutter Bind-it-all, which is a tool to cutting holes on the side of …
Wall postage stamp art
Do you have a lot of old postage stamps sitting in a drawer somewhere? Then here’s a little project for you. Wall art with postage stamps Here’s how you do it: Step 1: Print out something you can make a silhouette out of. I chose my initial M, with the font increased to 450, and …
