Quiet Time

 Over the past month I was quite busy with life, lost my camera, found my camera, and was knocked for a loop by a viscous summer cold. Thinking I was over it-(after a week and feeling a little better)--I did too much trying to catch up with myself, and disappeared down the rabbit hole again.  Now my husband has it and is twice as sick as I was--and that's pretty bad.

Today, I managed to get into the studio for about an hour, and not feeling like possibly ruining fabric, I used a couple of the sets of prints I took off my Gellipad recently, to make collages in honour of World Collage day yesterday.  I had also attended a collage-making Webinar with Julie Fei-Fan Balzer, yesterday afternoon that I really enjoyed, and wanted to try a couple of tricks she showed us.

This effort was really to try out the techniques I've learned over the past while.  All collages are in one of my sketchbooks, but I'm wanting to feel comfortable enough to try working on water colour paper.  This first one was done today, and was in response to yesterday's webinar where Julie used previous printed background images as her substrate.  This was a previously prepared double page in the sketchbook, but I forced myself to not make the collages as halves of a whole or matchy-match. Maybe a mistake and I maybe will have to add something more to the right hand one, but this is today's effort.


These two were made shortly after the play day when two friends and I got together to explore using a Gellipad, or even a home-made jelly pad.  The emphasis that day was to also to explore preparing prints that were created in a hue-specific value scale.

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This last photo shows my effort at making a "Chandelier" pattern quilt as mentioned in my previous post.  It's all pieced except the small corner triangles, and I have enough extra squares to make another one the same size.  This is about 44" by 46".

But I already know that recovery from my cold is going to be slow, especially with DH now down with it, but I'll try to post whenever I have something to show.




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