Tag# 4-13 MMM #15 Mosaic Collage

Welcome!

Today's tag is a combination of challenges.  The challenge on #onelittletag is to collage with magazine pages and the prompt at Mixed Media Morsels is to collage a mosaic background.

So I cut up a magazine page to use for my mosaic collage. I did have enough pieces to do it entirely blue, but I wanted to add a random pop of some colour.  Once I finished, I coated it with gloss medium/varnish.  It was interesting to do and looks kinda cool, but I don't know how often I will use this technique.  It's a little tedious and difficult to do with my vision.  These are fairly large  pieces, so pretty primitive (which I actually like) but some of the members of MMM used fairly small pieces.  It probably took them quite a while to do, but the results were quite striking!

Tag # 4-12 MMM #8 Houses #onelittletag #mixedmediamorcels

Tag 4 - 12 #onelittletag

I am so far behind! I am starting fresh, carrying on from here amid will probably try and catch up the rest gradually. On this tag I used Acrylic paint over printed paper. I drew and cut out the house, painted, doodled and used a stencil for the tree. The walkway was stenciled over magazine paper, cut out and collaged into place for this weeks challenge. I am combining this tag with MMM #8 Houses 

New Challenge! #MixedMediaMorsels

Well, I have joined another group on FB.  This is definitely the year for new things!  I had never done any challenges or joined any on-line groups or ever done a blog before the beginning of this year.  Reaching out of my comfort zone.  All good!

This group is called Mixed Media Morsels hosted by Cat Hand.  Once a week, she does a video showing a mixed media technique for us to try.  I actually joined about a month ago, or so, but have had a lot going on and hadn't had a chance to do anything yet.  I am very delinquent with my tags as well!  We are supposed to be keeping a little art journal with  all our morsels in it, but I am going to combine my challenges, so I will be turning my morsels into tags.

This is my first mixed media morsel, but it is actually MMM 13 (I believe) and I think they are up to MMM 15.  But I will do a few at a time and eventually catch up.  I may not do all the ones that I have missed, and go forward from here, but I will do some of them.  It's all fun!

Art Show update

Thanks for stopping by!  Just a quick show update,  This is how my booth looks now after some rearranging and the addition of some new paintings.

This is how my booth looked yesterday.  Three of my paintings have found a new home  "Blue Night Birch" (top right), "Drama (top left) and "A Light Touch" (bottom left).  Also gone are one of my Gelli prints and several of my tags.  This has been an awesome show so far, and still one day to go!

It has been a great show overall for many of the artists.  It's been really busy, with a terrific turnout. There have been a lot of happy people leaving the show with a painting in hand that has called to them in some way.

Thanks for checking in and I will give the final update tomorrow.

Spring Art Festival - OAA

Thanks for stopping by!  I've been a little busy lately getting ready for some Art shows.  So, for those of you that have been following my tags, that's why I haven't been making many lately.  But I will be back at it very soon, I have not given up on the challenge!
This is my artwork that I will be displaying this weekend at the OAA Annual Spring Art Festival.  It's a great show with about 70 different artists.  So, it will be a busy weekend, but all good!
Wish me luck!

Tag 4-6 "The best is yet to come" #onelittletag

Tag 4-6 - The best is yet to come #onelittletag

I put this one together fairly quickly. Things have been kinda crazy here, but I wanted to make a tag. I used a distressed background that I already had. The stamp is a Graphic 45 one that I like but haven't had a chance to use. I printed out the message. This weeks challenge is to include birds or a bird in our tag.   I have done several tags with birds in them, so I decided to put a different spin on it. This is pretty monochromatic as well, that wasn't my plan, but that's how it worked out.

Thanks again for stopping by!

Time Machimne

I have been sharing all the tags that I have been doing, but tags are not the only thing that I do.  So I thought I should start sharing some of my other art.  Mixed-Media is something that I enjoy and want to do more of.  This 8" x 10" painting is one that I did a couple of years ago.

I added some texture to the background with gesso and used some ribbon as a stencil.  I gold leafed the entire background.  I made an acrylic transfer skin from a photo I took at the ROM. painted the back of it white and adhered it to my painting.  I had made some gear moulds and made these gears using acrylic medium n the mold.  I added some touches of acrylic inks.  I keep thinking I would like to do a similar one on a larger scale because I really liked how it turned out.

Little Black Dress

This is a mixed-media painting I just finished that will be displayed in DT Toronto.  It is 36" x 48"  I love mixed-media, but this was a little out of my comfort zone.  I wanted to paint a dress, which in itself is a little different for me.  Then I got this idea of using a real dress.  I wanted to take something real and make it look painted instead of painting something to look real.  And I love the irony that the little black dress started as a little white dress.

 This photo doesn't show all the texture and background elements but I textured the background with gesso, then added some stenciling and washes.

Thanks for checking it out!

Another month of Tags #onelittletag

Another month of tags done.  There are several  unfinished tags this month, but the challenge is to be creative everyday, not necessarily finish one every day.  Or even like what you have done, for that matter.    I was away for a bit this month, so there was some catch up and I have had some other things on the go as well.  I do like what I have done this month.  I did some experimenting and playing and had some fun.  I hope you have enjoyed seeing what I have been up to, I really appreciate you visiting my blog!

 

 

Book Page challenge #onelittletag

I did do my take on this weeks  book page challenge, and although these are also not finished, I am sharing. I copied a map page using my laser printer and foiled it. I used red, blue and gold foil. It's really hard to capture the foiling . There are no black parts on the tag, it's all foiled. but it looks black in the photo. I also copied a music sheet and foiled in red as well, my thoughts being to use it in a Christmas tag.