Calm... Not Calm.... And Other Assorted Art

Hello !

I just finished my Tuesday's work and am waiting on my grocery order to come. After that, I will feed myself and maybe load the dishwasher and ...decide if I need a short nap. LOL !!! Whether I do or don't, at some point I will move to my art table to play a while. My front porch still needs some work. I did get my few new flowers potted, so they are happy, but there are some other things that need moving around out there for the summer. I'm not sure if I will tackle that this evening or not, but time will tell that story, as it always does.

A couple of nights ago I made this Calm piece of collage art. All of the papers were painted, stenciled and/or pressed by me, except for the piece of a sticky note in the bottom left corner. It was a Thank You message from another artist for buying a piece of their work. It was just laying on the art table and seemed to fit in so....there it went.

Calm....not by paper designs, but by colors.

NOT Calm ! I made this messy piece to test how a paper reacted to being painted and glued. The canvas was a cheapo from Dollar General that I bought to test the size for something else I wanted to do. I wanted to see if the other design would fit in that space before I bought a better canvas to put it on. It worked, but then this canvas was left and so I decided to use it for the paper test. Since I'm an old girl, I get a soft back book from Medicare every year. The other week when my work computer was down, but I needed to stay in the general vicinity of it, I pulled boxes and bags of paper things over where I could go through them, throw away and organize.... and when I got to the book from 2023, I decided to pull the pages out to use for collage papers. I thought the paper felt right for painting.

At lunch that day, I quickly swished some blue and hot pink paint across it and left it there to dry so I could test the gluing part that evening. When it came time, I tore it to pieces and haphazardly glued some pieces on. Then I added some yellow paper I had made before that had some blue lines on it to balance it out. THEN.... I put a few bits of white paper that had black marks on it and scattered some black ink around.

It made me laugh, but for real, I see stuff like this for sale on the net all the time. I don't know if anybody buys it, but other artists put it up for sale all the same. It was fun to make, but what a funny mess! Turns out, the paper will work fine for painting and gluing! Yay!

Now that you're traumatized good and proper, here is another piece I made last week. It wasn't supposed to be this way, but this is the way it ended up. There are parts of it I really do like and other parts not so much. It still has a fun vibe to it overall I think.

....and last, another piece with a different look. The background paper is one I painted and stenciled on the gel press. I loved the way it came out. The center piece is part of a page that was in a book, maybe about Lewis and Clark. I then cut the black silhouette from the black area of a shiny book page. To top it off, I added a scant bit of turquoise markings in two places. You know this is not my normal style, but I am having fun now and then, trying out new ways of art play.

Well.... time for me to go. I see my groceries have been delivered and to the back porch again. I love delivery people, but I don't know why they don't look at the notes on the orders when they drop them off. Nothing is ever suppose to be left in the middle of the back deck.

Hope you are all having a good week.

Love ya!

Jacey