Dear Liza,
I have stated using some of those pieces of art calendar that Jennifer sent up! After several days of looking and sorting and staring, I decided to start with these few.
Because they all had a sort of golden, brown antique-ish look, with touches of red, I used acrylic paints and an old card to make some papers to complement the art.
This was a bit too yellow, so I added some brown and scraped it down a bit.
This seemed a good start, but it needed another color. Red, maybe, but not RED.
These two mixed together to make (mostly) what I was looking for. Once I got a few done, I started laying the bits down to see how they looked.
As with any artistic process, this went on for quite a while. Lay it down, go do something else, come back, have a look, trim some pictures, move some bits.
This is as far as I have gotten as of now, but I’ll let you know as it progresses. I think it needs another layer of something, and some darker bits.
I love collage! No special skill is needed, or special training. There is only a need for bits to glue down, and an opinion about “what looks good”.
Love,
Grandma Judy
Dear Liza 