July 29, 2024
Collage Botanica Diary, 2: Rinse and Repeat
I resist the impatience and impulsiveness which would have me moving straight into lesson two in the course I’m taking, and pause instead, as recommended by Amanda, to make a second iteration of lesson one … in which, truth to tell, I think I just redirect my impatience and impulsiveness rather than resist, slapping collage here and there feverishly, tossing torn-paper confetti hit or miss!
How fortuitous to run out of Easifirst Shortening at the height of summer so I can throw a wild profusion of cut flowers into the empty can and let them settle into an impromptu arrangement.
6 x 6″; collage, acrylic, pencil, and oil pastel on canvasboard
semi-abstract floral
2024
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4 responses to “Collage Botanica Diary, 2: Rinse and Repeat”
I’m chuckling at the “rinse and repeat” title. I’ve been repeating the same cyanotype print with the button ferns over and over….because I love it so much and I’ve kind of figured it out. I literally “rinse and repeat!” I’m also resisting the urge to move on right now.
Your second version of lesson one is a profusion of color and playfulness! I love the flowers and leaves….but I’ll have to tell you I also love the background…both the wallpaper and the table. Those black dots are brilliant!
MaryAnn, happy thumbs up at your appreciation of my rinse-and-repeat post title AND your literal rinse-and-repeat with cyanotypes of button ferns
.More happy thumbs up at your nod to the black dots. They hit the spot with me when I bumped into polka dot tissue paper in my studio and put it into play to act as shadow
. I love using tissue paper of that sort for collage—it’s like magic to have the dots grace what I’m working on while the background translucent white-ish tissue paper ‘disappears’ when it is glued into place (magic I know you also enjoy).
Sheila! Thank you!
Hope all is well with you.
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