Brand new in my shop this week, a series of 38 miniature, mixed media paintings.
Brand new in my shop this week, a series of 38 miniature, mixed media paintings.
Inspired by ICAD {Index Card A Day} instagram challenge organised by the lovely Daisy Yellow, these are on 3 x 5 inch index cards.
While being weeny small in size, they are all bursting full of texture, juicy colours, and collaged pieces of book pages and found papers.
Mounted and ready to frame
(to fit a 6 x 4 inch / 10 x 15 cm frame)
£23.00 GBP + shipping
See the full collection HERE and tell all your friends!
Lovingly curated collections of colourful, multi-layered, painted papers. Perfect for art journals, collage, mixed media art.
The first FOUR collections of Painted Papers are now available in my new online shop 🙂
Color family:
Teal, turquoise, aquamarine.
Blues and greens,
Splashes of lime, yellow and gold.
Color family:
Pinky-purples, pomegranate, plum.
Ripe Raspberry to rich ruby red.
Magenta, Maroon, mauve & fuchsia.
Color family:
Bright sky blue and grass green,
Golden buttery yellows, floral peachy pinks and violets.
Color family:
Woodlands, meadows & moss,
Cool misty pine, verdant viridian,
Avocado, olive and luscious lime.
Collections include a mix of painted, printed & dyed papers ranging from vintage book pages and sheet music, art experiments, printed papers, maps, wrapping paper, wallpaper, magazine pages, envelopes and cards.
Coloured with watercolour & acrylic, inks, dyes, pens, pencils & pastel.
Ink dyed, stained, paint splashed and splattered; doodled, drawn & scribbled upon.
Multi-layered, irregular shapes, cut outs & torn edges, textured by crumpling crunchy paint layers and piercing. Some pieces have little bits of stitching and fabric.
Each piece already has a rich history in its layers and is ready move on to its next life in your art journals, mixed media art and collages.
5 Large Pieces
approx A6 / 3″x 4″ / 8cm x 10cm
10 Small Pieces
approx A7 / 2″ x 3″ / 5cm x 7cm
15 Mini Pieces
ranging 1-3″ / 2-8cm
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Two art journals filled up gradually over two years. Here’s how they turned out….
I chose these two big sketchbooks because I just couldn’t resist the cherry red & magenta pink covers!
Over the next couple of years, one or both of these books sat perpetually open on my art desk, and whenever I had extra paint to use up, or new pens to try out, these pages began to take shape.
This is where I’d scribble notes to myself, idly doodle in between times, while I waited for a zoom call to begin, and during online classes.
I’d see a face in the doodles and gradually these new characters began to show up.
As the pages got heavy with collage and paint, I tore out and tore up and glued back with wild abandon.
There are no rules in these books, there’s no upside down, no right and wrong.
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For a little over a year I’ve been adding a weekly spread to this ginormous sketchbook. This is what’s happened…
Here is the latest flip through of my Book of Days 🙂
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For a little over a year I’ve been adding a weekly spread to this ginormous sketchbook.
Because of the ginormity of this book (600 pages!) it’s going to span the course of a few years to come, and I’m excited about that. To see what appears in these pages is as much of a surprise to me as it is anyone else.
You can see a flip through of the first pages and a second update from early 2021 here on my youtube channel
Since then more creatures and people have shown up on the pages.
They populate the spaces in between the thought scribbles, color swatches and the occasional off-cuts of the projects that happen along the way.
The latest flip through catches us up with from January to July of this year, it’s exclusively previewing this weekend to my newsletter subscribers.
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We’ve all agreed that time isn’t real, right? because I’m fully embracing that in my reality now.
All that to say, World Collage Day was in May. I posted some photos of my collages in June, I’m writing this in July August, and you could be reading it any time after I hit publish 😉
In my world, I’m somewhere in Collage Season.
Step one: make space on the floor, spread out all the bits so see what you have to play with.
Starting out with a bundle of collage images – mostly cut out from magazines and book pages + a few abstract patterned papers – kindly supplied by the Arizona Collage Collective + some from my own collection, I began with some swapping of heads.
Gradually these newly imagined characters formed together in groups, in turn finding their home in the pages of my Book of Days
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I’ve been taking a few online classes lately. Exploring areas I already feel comfortable – mixed media, collage, watercolours – and adding to my range with the help of some fabulous teachers.
What I was not expecting from this, is how it’s encouraged me to revisit some older pieces that I’d got stuck with.
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Join me for the final step around the color wheel…
Ever since I was a young thing,
I’ve always loved to sew.
The back and forth of needle through fibres almost hypnotises me into a meditative trance. I love the tactile textures of the fibres, the way shapes can be held together and yet still flex to move. The shadows in the folds, the waves in the weave.
All this to say, it will come as no surprise to learn I have a sizeable stash of fabrics in my studio with which to play.
It’s largely a collection of clothes {some old, almost worn out, most thrifted or rescued, saved for a quality to the fabric, the color or texture or pattern or something. Others saved for simply their fibres, to be chopped up and used as stuffing}
There’s also the yarns and threads, the ribbons and trim. Some rescued and tattered, some new. One type I’m especially fond of (shhh – don’t tell the others) is a type of yarn made from recycled sari silks.
This particular yarn delights my senses with its blend of rich vibrant colors, the light shimmer to the silk fibres. It has a character and charm in its wobbly bobbly line, like a tree branch or stream. But more than this! when lightly unravelled it reverts to ribbon with deliciously frilled raw edges, fluffy like feathers, and a criss cross of creases.
Yes, I’m altogether smitten with this stuff!
You’ll find sari silk yarns and ribbons online or in some fabric stores, I got mine online from Yarn Yarn & Good Karma Llama, these are the best I’ve come across so far 🙂
So for the final piece of this 12 month project I used my most favourite material. This golden egg yolk color was perfect to complete the wheel of color that’s taken us through this extraordinary year!
Sometimes (often times) its the simplest of ideas that lead to the best outcomes.
I cut short lengths of the yarn and unravelled to ribbons, hand stitched them using a long running stitch to form stripes on this painted paper I’ve been using all month.
Each strip of silk made stripes within stripes, the frayed edges, the stitches over and the creases in the fabric, and the marks on the paper showing through between. I deliberately didn’t iron the unravelled yarn flat to maintain the wrinkles, although next time I might add some ironed stripes in as well for yet another type of contrast. I’d like to try layering narrow stripes on top of broader ones…. so many ideas!
This is a quick look at today’s piece taking shape stripe by stripe.
Join me in the New Year to find out where this project is going next as I plan to combine them into some big multicolored works.
(and maybe some more smaller pieces too)
making doodled patterns with painted paper shapes.
Following on from yesterpost’s painted paper collage inspired by the sun ray style mandala ideas, today I’m using the same papers but for something quite different.
From sharp cut, radiating lines to these freeform doodly torn wiggles.
I love making patterns from these rounded shapes – so much so I filled a whole sketchbook with them one time 🙂
Overlapping the pieces like scales or feathers gives them another layer of dimension, a sort of ruffled aliveness, and something I now want to explore again – maybe part of a bigger piece – maybe with fabric or card or something a bit chunkier to make them stand apart from each other even more.
Something I love most in this project is that each week I’m not just making the piece I show you in these posts, but they are sparking alive a whole flurry of offshoot ideas.
Here’s how today’s piece took shape
Every month this year I am making a series of mixed media pieces in just one color. At the end of the year I’ll combine them into one big multicolored work.
I’m sharing my process throughout this adventure here in this blog. (So far this year I’ve explored Yellow, Yellow-Green, Green, Blue-Green, Blue, Violet-Blue, Violet, Red-Violet, Red, Red-Orange & Orange)
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