Posted in Art, Creativity on Jun 26th, 2011
I created this card using old sheet music, ink, oil pastel and photocopied visual diary pages. I made sketches of Thames Barges whilst out on the water, watching the Medway Barge Match recently, and copied a couple of these onto the back of the photocopies, then cut out the silhouettes. I like the faded, distressed [...]
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Posted in Art, Creativity on May 23rd, 2011
Four handmade cards designed with the recipient in mind. The sheet music squares are from one of the music books my mother used when she was learning to play the piano and contain notes made by her tutor. The silhouettes are cut out of photocopied art journal pages. .
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Posted in Art, Creativity on Apr 28th, 2011
These pages are work in progress. My focus was on messing about and being 50. I used: layers of acrylic paint scraped on with an old plastic card potato prints pastels collage items from a box of my daughters’ art work from when they were children gel pen random writing stencils sprayed on ink I [...]
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Posted in Art, Creativity on Apr 20th, 2011
Pages from my visual diary. Created using layers of mixed media including collage, acrylics, inks, stamping, stencils and writing. The woman’s face (detail below) appeared on the page. I drew around it and used acrylic paint and ink to highlight the features. . .
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Posted in Art, Creativity on Mar 17th, 2011
Mixed media art journal pages created using collage, layers of acrylic paints, inks and masking tape. .
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