Hi again !

This past weekend I began to attempt to put together my first collage/mixed media piece using some of the papers I had previously created. Here is where it is for now.

Of course I did a few things backwards immediately, but I knew with overlap and layering and all that stuff, it would be somewhat correctable.

I have used a piece of stretched canvas this time, because that is what I already had here. They go on a great sale a couple of times a year, so I always stock up for my regular painting.

I did paint the sides first though. If a piece has sides, to me it is never "ready to hang" if they are left raw. The world.... according to Jacey !

I got to this point of having the background covered. It's almost a mountain at sunset.... or sunrise. Somehow, when I got here, I wasn't sure what to do with it next.... really, no clue. I didn't have a finished piece in my head, I just had an idea of how I might start 😄

After I glued the strip down the left side (the edge of the business card papers I made) and glued the yellow circle above it along with the bigger paper circle to the upper right, I laid random pieces around it to see if anything spoke to me. I let it sit that way overnight.

The next day it said "dump those pieces off of me and do some kind of stencil"..... so I did ! I sat and shuffled through my PILE of stencils and chose one that made the white design you see below across the top. I was surprised that I totally loved it. I put a little bit of it on the bottom too, so it would have some balance later.

Since I did this though, I have been stuck on it. You know I love and create brightly colored abstract paintings, so you can kind of see why I liked it.

Thing is, it has been like this for several days and now is has stopped talking to me. LOL ! Don't you just hate it when a piece of art becomes snobby and stops cooperating ???

On the youtube videos I've been watching, everyone has their theory about what they think "ought" to be. One lady said every piece needed a theme or needed to tell a story. Even though I don't make rules like that on myself, I thought, maybe I could put a little piece of all the different types of things I saw people use. Maybe a little piece of music and the corner of a printed napkin and some stenciled rice paper and.... well... you get it and I really thought that's what this first piece would turn into, a little hint of many of the things I saw.... and some sort of marks from my new markers but.....so far, it seems happy the way it is.... and I love looking at it....and I guess it will stay like this for a while till something hits me to do to it further.

Of course you know what that means... that's right..... it means I will have to start a second piece even though the first piece may not be finished.

😂

Such is life... right ?

Maybe I'll start on that tonight.

In the mean time I bought some wooden cradle boards. I thought they might be good for this type of art and I have always wanted to try them for painting too. I have also bought a few storage containers for my papers and scraps, before they get out of hand.

It's all going to be ok and you know how I know that ???

Lemon Cheesecake !

While I was putting this post together, my sister Vicky stopped by and dropped it off to me. She made a new recipe a couple days ago. Oh Yummy, it smells devine and I know it is going to taste even better !

The work week is a little more than half over now and I like that thought a lot.

Oh.... and as my sister was going down the steps to her car she asked me what I was going to have for supper. I laughed and told her I didn't know, but it MIGHT be lemon cheesecake !

I hope you've been having a good day.

Love you ! ❤️

Jacey