Collage class - weeks 3 and 4

In Week 3 of my collage class, we found imagery and printed it on tracing paper. This week's assignment was to make layered collages using the tracing paper imagery as the 2nd of several layers. These are all 4" x 5".

New gallery

I left some notecards with my collage imagery printed on them at The Danforth Gallery in Livingston, Montana, in July. They've sold a couple of the cards, and I finally had some time to make a couple of small collages to send out for their gift shop. These are both 8"x 8" and are Montana scenes.

2nd assignment for the collage class

We were to cut images from magazines, coat them with gloss medium, then assemble and iron the works to fuse the medium. Here were my submissions.

5 minutes

I just started an online class with Randel Plowman (author of "Masters: Collage" and "The Collage Workbook"). The first assignment was to make a number of 3" x 5" sheets of heavy watercolor paper, gather imagery, set a timer, and make several collages - each in 5 minutes or less. What a fun assignment!

Commission

I made this collage for a woman to give to her daughter and son-in-law for their first wedding anniversary. What a great gift idea from a cool mom!

Art Show -- July 26-Aug 13, 2013

I was pleased to have over 100 people come to my opening! I received a lot of good feedback and made 3 sales. It was nice to see all of my recent work on display together and get it out in public. Now to fine tune the work for my January show at the Quad City Airport Gallery....

Desert revisited

In looking at the art I had assembled for my solo show (going up this week), I realized I didn't have any desert scenes. So, I made this 8" x 16" vertical to go with my Montana and Illinois landscapes. I overlapped the horizontal strips at the bottom with some green fiber paper that looks a lot like vegetation when pulled apart into small pieces. Breaking my own grid!