love letter, 1952

This is a spread I just finished for an Art Garage rr journal. The instructions asked that we include a photo of ourselves as a child and a memory.

Looking at the photo I chose I recalled always being in a fog, not paying attention to my physical world at all... putting up with socks rolled down into my shoes, runny nose leaving chap marks on my upper lip, cold feet and unbuttoned sweaters. I was lost in an interior world of dreams, impressions, and thought.




This spread is about reaching out to that lost little girl and loving her for who she was (is). :-)

Hope is a thing with feathers...

This is a spread I just finished for an Art Garage Journal RR. The journal owner. Gloria, asked for the artists to "share your vision of Hope and your struggles with hopelessness." I chose the former. :-)
I started with the poem and found the adorable bird somewhere. Its collage, pastels, charcoal. and colored pencils.
I fed this page through my printer after it was colored and embellished. I made sure it was lined up perfectly first. It would have been a disaster if it didn't. Being somewhat dislexic, I have to turn my head upside down and watch the paper come of the printer to understand the orientation. LOL!

Moon Shell Charms

Paper Traders has a charm swap going on and this is my contribution. I started with disc beads made of mother-of-pearl. I sanded them down and stamped a face on one side with archival black ink. I heat set it with an embossing gun and then coated the image with diamond glaze. I made 13 of them...that's how many people are in the swap.
The hard part was teaching myself the basics of jewelry making to add the drop. Its a wrapped seashell.
I think I'm hooked on charms. I'm also making a series of very colorful bottle cap charms. Coming soon!

The array of charms is below.

White on White

This is a themed series of ATC's for a swap at Paper Traders. Anything goes, except color. We could only use white or shades of white. It was very challenging. I tried not to rely too much on variations of texture. Instead I relied on the subtleness of color. I'm not sure I accomplished what I set out to do... but it was an interesting experiment.
I used paper collage, rubber stamping, clear embossing, acrylics mixed with glaze and bits of fiber.
Here's the group of six: