I am the one who emerged from a farm

I've been wanting to do this collage for a long time. I did come from a farm and I love farm images. I suspect I will return to farms frequently, figuratively if not literally.

Skiing

The weekend before last I escaped by visiting my sister in Seattle and making art. This holiday weekend I went with my family to our cabin in the Sierras. Spent a lot of time skiing and digging out the cabin. It was beautiful and fun, but not particularly relaxing.

We are the ones who know

I've been pretty intimidated about doing soul collage (or soulless collage as my sister and I like to joke) so this is only my second one. At first I was just inspired by the color theme of burnt sienna, but then I found another theme emerging just like the books said would happen!

Acrylic background

I made this background by smushing acrylic paint on cardstock. I dragged combs and blotched with baby wipes, a technique I read about in Mixed Media Nature Journals. I hope to use this background in my art journal soon.

Ceattitudes

I Feeling angry and pessimistic, I abandoned the Beattitudes and created the Ceattitudes. But I'll soon be more positive and count my blessings again.

Mermaid Book

I began this mermaid book years ago when I first began stamping. I added new pages as I learned new techniques so it's almost like a sampler. About halfway through I added the text from T. S. Eliot as a way to structure it. I finished it in a hurry in order to put it in a one-day show at the Library. I was especially pleased with the way the cover turned out. The mermaid on the cover was from an old cigar box. I downloaded the image and printed it onto a transparency. Then I transferred the image to fabric and pieced fabric around it to fit the board book.

Sharon"s Fabric Birthday Card

I was inspired to make Sharon's birthday card by the colors in our house in Honduras. I had no intentions as to dimensions; I was going to make it as big as it needed to be. It turned out looking like a potholder so I added a hanger and it became Sharon's "fake potholder" card. Originally I was going to use a mixture of paper and fabric, but after I made the heart out of paper I only used fabric because I loved the scraps that I had gotten from Diane.