collage finished at last - I think

 I think this project is finally finished.

It has turned out quite well and I think I could just keep tweeking it endlessly.

The last thing I did was to paint some watered down transparent white gesso, with a tiny amount of brown water colour paint mixed in, over the entire piece.  There was just too much glitter and glitz so this flattened some of it out.
 

 It is a bit hard to photograph but I think you can see some of the detail.

The pressed flowers are still clearly visible and the paper serviette birds have been overpainted with black acrylic paint.

 To create this I have used pressed flowers machine made lace, tyvek, ribbon, faces made from air dried clay and painted, fabric flowers and leaves, paper serviette birds, butterflies and flowers.

PVA glue, gesso, modge podge and watercolour and acrylic paints.

2 little birds

Life is busy at present and there is not much time for creative work.  Last night I added a few more items to this ongoing piece.  Can you see two birds?  They are taken  from paper serviettes and glued to the background.

I hope to finish this tomorrow.

It is Autumn here now and the weather is absolutely beautiful.


Many of the trees are beginning to change colour although our native trees are evergreen.

collage episode 3

This morning I started to make some lace on soluble film:  I am not sure which brand it is because I picked it up in an op shop with some other goodies.

This is the stitching before rinsing it out

It is important to make sure that the stitching connects and crosses over or you just end up with a long string of stitches.

This film was quite heavy so it was difficult to wash it all out - if you leave any residue the lace will be stiff and harder to work with.

Once I was sure that it was thoroughly rinsed I gently squeezed out the water being careful not to let it tangle or break threads.

This is how it looks partially stretched and still damp on the ironing board.

The machine stitching took some hours so in between times I painted the canvas with Gesso to make it more textured.

  I sprinkled some glitter on to the wet Gesso just to make it more interesting,

  It dried quite nicely.

 Tonight I will start to construct the collage.

update on collage

This is the next stage of my collage.  In fact it will be the basis of the collage (I think).  I have a lot of difficulty layering things, even when I want to.  I need something to tie it all together and this is it.  I found this lovely yellow fabric poppy in my cupboard and new immediately that it was what I needed.  There are also some little leaves made out of silk paper.

Tomorrow I hope to do some serious work on this.

balancing the elements

I was up and about before 5 am this morning so I spent some time fiddling around with this collage.

 These dried flowers looked pretty on hand made paper.

This fairly chunky silk paper with some gold chain, mistyfuse and metallic frame might be a bit heavy.

I like the effect of this for its quirkiness.

Another try with the silk paper.  Still not right.

I'll mess about with this again tomorrow.

Any comments and suggestions would be most welcome.

Autumn collage on the table

This month I have received some Mistyfuse and Foil from The Thread Studio you can check them out here and this has really inspired me to do something creative.

  I checked out some ideas here and then rummaged around in my workroom to see what I could do.

First I found some copper metallic Angelina fibres.  

The Mistyfuse is very fine and lovely to use:  I laid the black mistyfuse on some baking paper and spread some copper Angelina fibres on top and laid the white mistyfuse on the top.  After covering it with another sheet of baking paper I ironed it thoroughly

 You can see from the photos that it is still quite transparent (or is that translucent). 

 Having done that I collected things that I liked including a canvas I had painted yellow some time ago.

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 Among the bits and bobs I found some paper, ribbons, fabric, dried flowers and free machine made lace to mention just a few.

This collection will sit on the table for a few days - I will place the pieces and leave it for a while and then move them around until I am happy with them.