Collage with Natural Objects

Collage created with matte medium and outdoor natural objects found during our vacation in the Northwoods of Wisconsin. It's been a couple of years now, and it has held up very well.

Paper Beads

I tried out a "new" craft - paper beads. I read about them in Cloth, Paper, Scissors magazine I now get in addition to Somerset Studio, as well as saw a tutorial online at Go Make Something. Here is my first run - using a decorated paper of a neutral pattern and color. I added some glitter glue, stamp pad ink and some wire. I added a few extras as well.

Take a look at the bluish bead near the top center that is wrapped with turquoise wire. Look at the blue bits of things that are embedded in the UTEE. These are fragments of a robin's egg that my kids and me found in our yard. I'll have to use this bead on a bird themed piece of my artwork.

Here is what the beads looked like before I used UTEE on them to make them "bead-like." Very easy to do this stage - and fun. I'm not as excited about adding the UTEE, because I was trying too hard to be perfect, and this medium does not allow it when you add many layers of the goopy stuff. Overall, a fun project and one I think I may use often to add a personal embellishment to my work.

Documenting My Art

I am beginning today to post my artwork, separate from my other blog that includes personal information. This blog will be a site to share with others interested in my professional work sans my private life. This is a photograph of the shadow of a bike that was laying in the rain before it was picked up.