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Thursday, March 25, 2010

Mini-Collage Practice as a Warmup for Poetry Journal

Here are my versions of practicing doing mini-collages as a warmup before doing the poetry journal, Week Two's project in The Artistic Mother workshop. Shona of An Artful Life and author of The Artistic Mother has done a post about this with a tutorial. I really suggest you take a look at it because she goes into detail breaking it down into steps showing how to make and use a view finder in order to help you make the proper combinations. It's a very easy method and can be used on many projects.

I used my background papers from Week One to make these. The first two were made by tearing and cutting up strips of my papers and glueing them onto a playing card. The last photo is a greeting card. The same process was used. The papers were glued onto some card stock that was folded in half to make a card instead of onto a playing card.

11 comments:

  1. these are very successful Trudy :) Glad to see you are using those precious background papers. I know how hard it is to tear them up!!!

    Shona

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  2. Great looking!!!! Can't wait to post mine up!!lol
    It was a lot of fun doing it, ripping up my papers felt like just jumping!! your colors are fantastic!!

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  3. Oooh - such rich colors and beautiful layouts!!

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  4. Trudy.....you are the best! Really, this is one group project I am so happy I joined. It would not be the same without you. I loved your background letter stamp(???) I just went out to buy one at Hobby Lobby...50% off!!! It's so pretty, I love your papers all cut up.
    By the way...you are welcome at my home anytime!!

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  5. thanks for posting, trudy. this will be of great help. i have been sitting at the table all week staring at my journal cover, arranging & rearranging. this is perfect...:)

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  6. just stunning...the colours are just beautiful...i threw mine together last night and now i want to make more...i am addicted...lol...thi group is so much fun..just so liberating...thankyou...xxx

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  7. these are just so beautiful, the colors and textures are great!

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  8. fantastic!

    i did a series of weekly tags ... i love working in this size. great way to dip a toe into the water and i love using the little "view finder."

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  9. these are awesome! I love the bold colors...

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  10. I love these colors! You need to check out the book "Revealed" by Carolyn Quartermaine. It explores a similar rich, colorful aesthetic.

    I can start the Artistic Mother project next week...so I want to stay on the list. My boy has been on vacation for two weeks and we have been super busy. I'll be back in the studio next week. love, Beth

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