Howdy! I'm sitting just inside the window here at The Dreaming Bear, watching the most gorgeous snowflakes falling all around! It's beautiful! It's a good day for a hot cocoa and some fuzzy socks!
It's also a good day for some paper painting! For my birthday, my hubby gave me the latest video from Interweave: All About Faces by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer. (yes, he is THAT good at gift giving!!! I'm a lucky girl!) I watched this video over the weekend a couple of times...and it's great! Julie is a fabulous teacher...very upbeat and fun to watch! She shares all sorts of tips and techniques for incorporating faces into our artwork. A certain project really caught my eye...and that was making a collage face out of all sorts of patterned fabrics. In my case, I'm going to start with paper....so Angie and I have been making lots of different patterned papers using acrylics, watercolors, free hand drawing, and stamps. FUN!! 
This is really free....no overthinking allowed.....just slapping colors and patterns together on a whim. However it turns out is just fine, because these pieces will be cut up into smaller bits that will be used in a collage!
We are off to a pretty good start....building up a stash.....but we still need more!!!
I love the zig zags that Angie made....
This one ended up being my favorite....it reminds me a little of a batik.
Soon, I'll get to work on those collages and share them with you. What are you doing today?
3 comments:
LOVE THEM!!! What great fun to be able to just paint freely. : ) Can't wait to see the finished products.
LOVE THEM!!! What great fun to be able to just paint freely. : ) Can't wait to see the finished products.
some great potential there. great colors.
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