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Sunday Postcard Art - Forest

This week’s theme for Sunday Postcard Art is Forest.

I started out trying an image transfer with my gelli plate.  It didn’t work out quite the way I’d planned so I decided to take a different approach.  Just drawing a silhouette over a map and adding a big red moon or sun from a print I made a few weeks ago.

Then I had second thoughts about the “failed” print.  When I looked at it again I saw the forest - do you see it too?  Or did I just imagine it because I wanted to see it? Either way, I’ve set up one of my little paper houses on the edge of the forest.

Thank you very much for joining me today!  I appreciate you looking at my work.  Don’t forget, you can see much more of my work on Instagram, where I post pretty much daily. https://www.instagram.com/cindymcmath/

More square collages

Today I’m showing the rest of my square collages from August, as well as into the first week of September.

I started out with these vintage phones that I found in an old ad in an old New Yorker magazine.

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I just love the colours!

I thought that floral washi paper reminded me of old wallpaper.

The last four collages have me revisiting previous themes - birds, butterflies, houses…

That’s it for my square collages.  I’m not sure what I’ll be getting into or up to in September, but you can find me on Instagram where I post most of my art work.

Thanks so much for joining me today!  

Sunday Postcard Art - Owls

This week’s theme for Sunday Postcard Art  is Owls.

I used this wonderful owl stamp and basically built the card around it.

Thanks so much for joining me today!  I’ll be back tomorrow with more square collages. 

New Postcard Series

Well hello!  I know I don’t usually post during the week, but I’m on vacation, and I have a special post regarding a series of postcards made specifically for an online challenge from My Collage Lab  If you’re visiting from my Instagram page, welcome and thank you.  

First of all, this series is inspired by video published on one of my favourite artist’s YouTube channel - Jane Davies.  In case you’re not already following Jane (and if not, what’s wrong with you?!) the link to this particular tutorial is Here

This post is not a tutorial, but I wanted to show you a few of the different layers that went into this project. Since this is a collage challenge, the layers of collage might not be immediately evident, and I wanted to show them in particular.  But of course I forgot to photograph a few layers - I get quite caught up in the process!

First of all, I glued down some of my photocopied doodles onto a 9” x 12” piece of Strathmore mixed media paper.  I also added a bit of black paint as shown. 

Next I added some paint in some of my favourite colours.  I pulled some of the paint up with a sheet of paper in order to make sure my initial layer still showed through.

Next I added some hand-painted tissue paper.  The circles you see are already glued down.  You can see the black marks sitting on top waiting to be glued.  I used tissue from an old pattern.

And here the are, all glued down.

Next I brayered some lighter colour horizontally, and added some stamped patterns from my favourite stamp source for mixed media - Art Foamies

Here I’ve added some marks with my Molotow pen in Signal Red, as well as a few scraps of gelli print.  I didn’t like the white edges on the gelli print so I blended in a bit of Neocolor II crayon.

At this point I cut the base into four equal 4.5” x 6” pieces.  Although a postcard size is usually 4” x 6” I don’t like to waste paper and there is no real size restriction.  As those of you who follow me know I often make postcards from bingo cards of various sizes, as well as square cards and even giant puzzle pieces.  

After the cards were cut, I added some finishing touches and wound up with the following four cards.

Thank you so much for joining me today!  I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing the different layers that went into these cards.  

August Square Collages - week 4

We are just about wrapping up August.  I confess I’ve been working ahead so I’ll have enough cards to make at least another full week.  I’ve really enjoyed this format, and have already sold and mailed some of the cards that I made with them.

I started the week continuing with the bird theme.

Then it was back to abstracts.

 

Then I decided to use some of these fabulous small cards from ARTchix Studio from so many years ago (designed by the original Art Chick herself, Helga).

And this one features part of a label from the black paper I’ve used as the backing for all these squares.  Trying to reduce waste wherever I can!

Thanks so much for joining me today!  I will be posting the rest of August and into September same time next week.  

Sunday Postcard Art - Giraffes

This week’s theme for Sunday Postcard Art  is Giraffes.  Who doesn’t love a giraffe?  My giraffe has escaped from the carousel!

Thanks so much for joining me today.  I’ll be posting week 4 of my August square collage challenge tomorrow - I hope you’ll come back!  

August Square Collages - Week 3

Is it just me, or is August flying by?  Here are the next seven square collages.

 

Thanks so much for joining me today!  See you next week.

Sunday Postcard Art - Games

This week’s theme for Sunday Postcard Art  is Games - a favourite theme.  Of course I had to use an old Bingo card as my substrate!

Thanks so much for joining me today.  Tomorrow I’ll be sharing the week’s square collages - I’d love it if you’d come back!  

August Square Collages - Week 2

Here are this week’s seven square collages, in no particular order…

I have to throw a heart in every so often.  

And a house…

Love this chess stamp!

I call this abstract “bits and pieces from my desk”… ok maybe I’ll leave it untitled.

Pretty much the same for the rest of the week - just putting together pleasant combinations of colour and shape.  

And then there was this one that I had laid out slightly differently originally - that piece on the right lower corner was supposed to go under the piece on the top left to give better contrast to the butterfly.  Once it’s glued it’s glued.  Oh well!  

Thanks so much for joining me today! 

August square collages - week 1

As mentioned, this month I’ll be making one square collage a day.  I’ve already made some of them into greeting cards and sold some of them so I won’t be doing a group shot at the end of the month this time.

I won’t comment on all of them, but LOVE these chair stamps!

And these transportation themed stamps are amazing too!  

This card is featuring some of my black and white doodles that I’ve had photocopied for use in collage and image transfers.

Thanks so much for joining me today!