I’ve been thinking lately about using symbolic text in my artwork. Letters and words at their core are just a mix of curved and straight lines. Language is the art of taking those lines and giving them meaning. The result is that when we write down certain line shapes in certain order, we understand the meaning […]
According to Wikipedia, “Collage (From the French: coller, to glue) is a technique of an art production, primarily used in the visual arts, where the artwork is made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.” ancagray Etsy shop Anca uses book pages, clothes patterns, etc. to create her beautiful collages. I […]
How do you control the inner voice inside you that always seems to say, when you’re working on a mixed media piece, “just a little bit more- it’s still missing something”? There are times, like with this current piece, that my inner voice was just a little too vocal, and I listened to it. I […]
Alright, my diy art studio is coming along! These shelves took me a surprisingly long time to figure out, despite the fact that they were really easy to install. I had to scratch my original idea to mount these shelves because the studs were too far apart, so I went back to Lowes and found […]
I first saw Judy’s work on Etsy, and was immediately intrigued, mostly because she seems to suffer from the same artistic schizophrenia that I do- her work is all over the spectrum, but she’s so talented that she can do that and it works. She does acrylic work, watercolors, and fiber art. I have seen […]
As I try to organize my blog and my life a bit more, I’ve decided I’d like to take every monday to share with you all what artwork I’ve been working on lately. Here’s my newest collage- I call it “Forgive”. I actually had started this one months ago, back before we moved. I had […]