Green Collage
July 13, 2011
Green collage created from my stash of green magazine clippings and fabric scraps for Jane Davies’ online class Unlocking the Secrets of Color. The assignment was to create a composition using only one color.
Category: Collage Inspirations
Photoshop and Repeat
July 4, 2011
Lately I’ve been playing with Photoshop Elements and thinking about ways to use it to manipulate images for collage and quilting. I took Intro to PSE from the Fabulous Pixeladies and learned how to repeat images on a single “canvas”. I decided to try this with the Newspaper Collage from my scrapbook (see yesterday’s post). … More Photoshop and Repeat
Pages from My Sketchbook
July 3, 2011
I’m interested in using collage techniques in my paintings so decided to do some experimenting in my sketchbook. Here are some that I completed in the last week. I attached scraps of fabric then added some paint. Here I painted over a background of shredded paper and bits of cheese cloth. This one has text and … More Pages from My Sketchbook
Collage inspirations
May 27, 2011
I created these collages in class last month at East Bay Heritage Quilter’s workshop with Judi Warren Bladen. Judi’s class was based on her new book collage+cloth=quilt The first collage was a quick exercise using copies of photographs provided by Judi. We were asked to create a composition quickly to get warmed up before making … More Collage inspirations
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