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 …
It all started with the stars
It all started with the stars, many years ago… That’s what I was thinking when I gazed upon this tiny box of foil-colored stars. I came across this vintage box of foil stars at my local antique mall not too long ago. When I saw it, it brought back a memory I had of me …
Telling stories though collage art
September is here and school has started again for my grade schoolers, albeit a bit differently than a typical school year. One of the subjects I love helping my 3rd grader with is Language Arts. There, they read stories and answer questions about comprehension to make sure they get the full meaning out of the …
The activity on my desk
While setting things temporarily on my new desk, I see tons of projects and things that I meant to do, to complete and never did so. We’re in the process of moving from one house to another, so in all the packing, things are getting shifted around. I do like that I have the opportunity …
