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 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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Posted in Art, Creativity, Poetry on Mar 16th, 2011
two and two again, again tiny but perfect you wrote how to take it in double the miracle in the home of the mandala something has shifted girl becomes boy his name stumbles grows into itself skin on arm wrinkled surprises body naked curls over a steadier arm for brief return to water now cradled [...]
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