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A pink and orange combo always captures my attention with its playful energy.
Week 1  Week 2  Week 3  Another month ending - week 4 of my August Concertina Sketchbook "Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August." ~ Denise Levertov  The finished 4 panels  End of the month collages using leftover scraps
Pink and orange are a great color combo in the garden too. The photo on the left is from Harkness Memorial State Park. I took a walk there this week and the cutting garden was amazing. They change it up a little each year with different color and plant combinations but it is always lovely. The other two photos are of my garden. A light pink cosmos and a cactus zinnia mixing with orange cosmos.
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I wasn't quite ready to give up the turquoise I was using in June so I paired it with 2 new colors. It was only a matter of time before I got some of my security envelopes in here 😆 - so many lovely gray patterns to choose from.
Week 1  Week 2 Mixing gray patterns for this week's background.  Week 3 A super hot day. Checked on the garden in the morning, put fresh water in the bird bath and then was perfectly happy to stay inside with the AC and make collages.  Week 4 Indecision because of too many paper choices on my table slowing me down, so what did I do? Painted more coffee filters and stamped more circles on deli paper, of course!  Week 5 Glad I had 5 Mondays to play with these colors. The coral color has become a new favorite.  Finished 5 panel concertina  So many gray, turquoise, and coral paper scraps left over from July's concertina sketchbook. As usual, a few more small collages were created before I clean up my table and prepare for August's concertina.
 I hope you're having a great start to the new year! I've been having lots of fun making piles of rusty papers and coming up with projects for a class I've been wanting to teach for some time now. I have a rust printing for fabric class on Skillshare but since I'm a collage artist at heart I've been thinking about rusting paper. for some time now.  The first time I got the chance to experiment with rusty metal and paper was kind of by accident or I should say after an accident. I broke my right hand and couldn't write, type, stitch or glue anything so all the projects I had going at the time had to be put aside for about 6 weeks. What I could do though was arrange washers, nails, and other odd bits of rusty metal on paper with my left hand. I took over the basement and tried everything I could think of or had read about on the process of rusting. I'm excited to share my new workshop Rust Printing on Paper. It's the result of all that research and experimenting. So if you are a collector of rusty metal like I am (or would like to be), have I got some ideas for you! Rust Printing on Paper WorkshopIn this workshop, you'll explore different techniques for making prints with rusty metal on a wide variety of papers. I'll show you how to use the rust marks as inspiration as you create an accordion book with a cover, added pages, collage elements, windows, weaving, and stitching.  You'll learn how to bring shades of gray out of the rusty metal for different color variations and rust up some thread and string that can be used to stitch in the accordion book as well as on the collection of mixed-media collages you'll make on the last day.
This is an instant access self-paced workshop What's winter without a mug of good hot chocolate? A pretty dull winter if you ask me, especially if there are no marshmallows involved!
I shared this recipe for green tea hot chocolate 3 years ago but thought I'd share it again because I think it's so good. This is a lighter version where you get the benefits of green tea and cocoa as you enjoy a treat that's not overly sweet. Most times I quadruple the recipe and store what’s left in the fridge for another time. Click the photo above to get a printable copy with the instructions for both a single serving and 4 servings. I won't tell anyone if you add some marshmallows too!  "The snow is sparkling like a million little suns." - Lama Willa |
AuthorHi, I'm Kathy a collage, eco-print artist, and rust enthusiast who loves to teach and guide you along on your creative journey. Archives
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