My "Art Sistas" workshopping group will be presenting work at our next meeting using "creatures" as our reference point. When we were all on a retreat together in Michigan last month, I saw an art piece that had botanical drawings in it. I decided to start there. On the first one, I printed the illustration of a hickory tree leaf onto brown paper, laid real hickory leaves on the paper and photographed that for my composition. I digitally added a lady bug "creature" to a leaf and ran filters on the photo. The artwork is made up of three sets of images cut into strips, vintage ledger paper and postage stamps. On the second one, I combined the photo of a monarch butterfly on a zinnia with an illustration of zinnias. The artwork is formed of three sets of images cut into strips, vintage ledger paper with shredded U.S. currency added to the zinnia illustration. Each is 10" x 10" x 1"
