Category: recycled art
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Collage 15. Cut- up Poems. Whats under your Bonnet?
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in 30 days of collage, abstract collage, Collage, Collecting, craft materials, Creative women, cut up poems, eco- friendly, found poems, Handmade, Jenny Davis, online collage course, original collage, Paper ephemera, recycled, recycled art, recycling art, reusing scraps, stephani levy, Uncategorized, vintage magazines, vintage paper, vintage stuff, womens rights, Work on paperWhats under your Bonnet? This was a fun project…I used a vintage 1960’s New idea magazine to cut out found words, phrases and images. Looking at my finished piece now, I can see the composition is all over the place with no central focal point and may change it in the future I found the…
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Collage Tutorial 14. Maps
I loved making this collage using my collections of found papers and fabric. I started off with an old school exercise book cover from the 1930’s. It was full of hand drawn maps. I added stitching to the map and some found vintage graph papers, aged canvas and a did a little hand drawing on…
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Collage Tutorial 13. Negative Spaces.
Playing with negative spaces was a challenge for me. Though both negative and positive spaces appear in everything, we usually only see positive space but, in creating artworks, both areas are just as important as each other. I used many different types of found papers for this piece, including vintage wallpapers, dressmaking tissue, negative snowdrop…
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Collage Tutorial 12. Stickers. Stamps. Stencils.
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in 30 days of collage, andy warhol, Art, assemblage, Collage, Collecting, creating, Creative women, design ideas, Jenny Davis, online collage course, original collage, pop art, recycled art, text collage, tutorial, Uncategorized, vintage collage, vintage finds, vintage paper, vintage stamps, vintage tapeThis collage links to my interest in the world of vintage advertising, Pop Art and Andy Warhol Once again I worked in layers Starting with a base layer of distress inks, paint swatch stickers and hand painted papers, I then added vinyl tape and letters Finally, more paint swatches with vintage stamps, stencils and ink…
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Clear. Cloudy. Rain. Snow. Collages
A series of collages ” Clear Cloudy Rain Snow.” created as bonus collages for 30 Days of Collage