A geometric collage from textured papers
March 10, 2008 by Cyndi Lavin
Filed under Home & Living
Make Art Monday!
Back in January, I shared a batch of collage papers with you that I made which stressed the textures. They used a limited number of colors so that they’d all work together well in future projects. Well, the time has come! I decided that I wanted to do a bit of an experiment and do two projects: one very geometric and one very organic. I like both ways of working, so it seemed most sensible to do the geometric one first. That way, I could just tear into my papers afterwards and not have to worry about whether I’d left enough to make the shapes I needed.
Here’s the first result, called God’s Gifts
Tomorrow, I’ll outline how I made it for Technique Tuesday. To prepare, gather up the collage papers you have on hand, or make some. There are tutorials for my papers here and here, among other places on this blog!
Beautiful! I love the color scheme.
Thank you, Eileen! I could work with those colors all the time…
I love the colors, the style and what the words say to me (and other women I know) If my sister had a computer I’d send her here to see it. (Did you know you were being subversive here?)
LOL!! I wasn’t trying to be subversive
I made this piece kind of for a friend who was upset over his son’s decision to walk away from his former faith. I was just trying to let him know that the boy would be back…just love him, love him, love him.
Well, it fits for the women of the Catholic church who feel called to serve as priests but can’t. The call doesn’t go away just because the church says no.
I wonder just how many other situations this simple line fits. I guess that’s why “less is more” is a good expression. If you’d said more about the situation you were thinking of the art wouldn’t have fit the one I was thinking of. That’s something for me to file away in my chaotic filing system of a brain – skip the brain, I’ll write it in my notebook. Thanks for the insight.
I imagine it fits a lot of different situations, which is why I usually hesitate to explain, at least at first. I want everyone to be able to see what they see without my interference