The blog is back! My goal for the year is to make/find one small artwork everyday following the prompts provided in the Wild Kids Magazine Photo Challenge. At the end of the week, I will use those artworks to create a 3"x3" collage. I hope to put those 52 collages together into one large artwork at the end of the year.
Bonus Week
I realized after making this initial collage that I should have waited a full 7 days. Therefore, I incorporated the scraps from this bonus collage into my Week 1 collage.
Day 1 - New
I decided to look through my art supplies and find something I had never used before. I found a KiwiCo Tinker Crate Spin Art Machine that was given to my many years ago that I had assembled, but never used. Fortunately, the paint still worked and the spin art was easy to make.
I always tell my students "broken crayons still color". So for this project, I pulled out my bin of broken "naked" crayons. I chose the same 4 colors I had used for the spin art, grated them on the the paper and placed it on a hot plate to warm. I also colored directly on the paper while it was heating.
Day 3 - Bark
This one took me a minute to figure out, but then I remembered that I has some birch logs in the garage that have been waiting to be used. I peeled off a small section of bark and then slowly peeled that apart into thinner sheets. After washing, drying and pressing the birch bark papers, they were ready to use.
Day 4 - Leaf
I considered doing a texture rubbing of a leaf, but then I remembered my collection of pressed flowers and leaves. I pulled out the box and carefully looked through each paper towel selecting my favorite leaves; I couldn't choose just one. I am fairly certain that some, if not all, of these leaves are relics of my childhood (pre-2007) harvested, placed between paper towels, and pressed within the pages of a JcPenny catalog with assistance from Granny, my maternal grandmother.
Day 5 - Shadow
I knew that I had some Nature Print Paper somewhere I my art supplies, and I was so excited when I finally found it. While cyanotype isn't exactly shadows, it does require the sun and essentially makes a print of the shadow of the objects laid on top of the paper. This is a print that I had made years ago and is ready for repurposing.
Day 6 - Rock
I had a snow (ice) day today, so I decided it was a good time to do a task that I had been putting off. When I travel to new places, I like to collect some sand to remember it and layer the sand in jars. It is fun to see the layers of different colors. Today I added 6 more layers of sand collected from various sites I visted while traveling to the east coast in September. The most course and rocky of these sands was collect from Lake Ontario, so that is what I will use in my collage.
Day 7 - Speckled
I went back to paint today finding some paint markers to make a quick splatter painting. I stuck to the same color scheme of blue, green, orange, and yellow that came with the spin art for a unified look to the final collage.
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