Look to the Future

 A quick analogue collage for the
10 Layer Collage Challenge
with Contemporary Collage Magazine.

Look to the Future
Tomorrow you're my only hope

The challenge as usual,

create a collage only using the imagery provided.

The substrate is leftover 2mm thick greyboard from

their Vintage Magazine Collage Challenge,

so it measures 21cm x 14.7cm.

It will be interesting to see the variety of collages produced

as everyone taking part will be working with the same ten images,

the resulting collages being either analogue or digital.

Charity Postcard Collage Challenge 2023/2024

As I was reorganising my desk

I came across an uncompleted Postcard Challenge

from Contemporary Collage Magazine.

Using no other paper material

than that included in your personal pack,

the challenge was to make a collage

on each of two blank postcards provided.

My first one which I completed

back in March 2023 is entitled

Guide to Creativity

"Have a philosophy of

being creative and

have room for mistakes"

The second completed this month

is entitled

Call me Bob

"Remember, it's all my fault"

There is always enough

collage material left to play with

so I usually create a grid of nine inchies.

Collage_This 4

 

Contemporary Collage Magazine publish a limited number

of these challenge booklets with each new edition.

They are sent around the world to 150 collage artists,

with the aim to see how varied the resulting collages are

using identical collage material.

I decided to make a series of collages in a kraft journal.

Each page is 14x14 centimetres.

State of Mind

Pause to Breathe

Meditation

Artistic License

Stop ... I want to get off

Patience

Handsome

On the edge

Rule of Nine

Centred

And now ...

Ordering my thoughts

Chaos

Rest

New Day, Different World

This is what remains from my booklet.

Vintage Magazine Collage

 Earlier this month I took part in a collage challenge with

Contemporary Collage Magazine.

They sent me a vintage magazine and five substrates to work on.

They gave me a month to complete the challenge.

I created three collages & submitted them
for publishing in their online magazine.

The magazine I received was
Practical Motorist
from October 1970.

Each collage is 21 x 14.7 centimetres on 2 millimetre thick greyboard.

DRIVE

The first collage is entitled DRIVE.

The prompt I used was

"A collage that represents the theme of your magazine".

It also meets the "A monochromatic collage".

DIAGNOSIS

The second collage is entitled DIAGNOSIS.

The prompt I used was
"A collage that has no reference to the theme of your magazine".

PAGE THREE

The third collage is entitled PAGE THREE.

The prompt for this collage was

"A typographic collage with a message/slogan".

Care December 2023 - Part Three

 

The final two prompts from

Kasia's Care December 2023 event.

finding inspiration

phone call with a loved one

Care December 2023 - Part Two

 

This is part two of Kasia's 2023 Care December event.

day 8 - denim

day 9 - hydrangeas

day 10 - out of the blue

day 11 - sashiko

day 12 - peacock

day 13 - blue portrait

There are two prompts left,

which I will complete during

the remainder of the holiday season

& I might even try to film a flip through.

See you soon.

Care December 2023 - Part One

 

Kasia at Everything Art is running another Care December event. 

Her blue edition began on 8th December,

so I gathered my supplies,

recovered my current art journal

and started ...

Supplies

Journal Cover

Title Page & Bookmark

There are just 15 days of prompts this year,

so I am hoping I can keep up.

Day 1 - setting our intention

Day 2 - blue thread

Day 3 - gratefulness

Day 4 - calm waters

Day 5 - new moon

Day 6 - coldness

Day 7 - blue lotus flower

Art Journal - Chapter 1

Last year, I enrolled in Wanderlust 2022

with Everything Art.

I only managed to follow the first few weeks,

working in my handmade junk journal,

before giving up completely.

So this year, 2023,

I am planning to watch each week's video lesson

in turn & then make a journal page

using the same journal.

My page will be inspired by,

but not necessarily precisely following

the lesson.

In 2022, Wanderlust was divided into chapters

& the first chapter was entitled

Gesso & Gel Mediums.

Week 1

The first subject was clear gesso

& how to incorporate it into mixed media.

Week 2

This week was about the contrasts

of black & white gesso.

We used plants & leaves

to create patterns with black gesso,

then used them to create a landscape

& added a found text caption.

Week 3

The third week was about using gel medium 

through stencils to create a clear mask

then use colour to reveal the patterns.

It doesn't really show on my book page,

as the white gesso & gold paint I used was too subtle,

but it is there, just.

I used images from Carolyn Dube,

black gesso on paper from the previous week,

washi tape,

words cut from an old novel

& collage paper from the 2022 Artist Almanac.

Week 4

White gesso through a stencil

to create texture.

I used collage paper
from the 2022 Artist Almanac,
lettering cut from a magazine,
green watercolour pencil,
& green jute ribbon.

Week 5

Scraps from week 2,

with newsprint lettering

& black Pigma Micron pen marks.

The smallest page in my journal,

which is kraft card,

so keeping it simple.

Week 6

Using gesso as a textural layer

& creating collage fodder.

I used collage paper from

The 2022 Artist Almanac,

various tissue papers,

black gesso, gold paint &

image transfer of newsprint lettering.

Week 7

Using clear gesso to protect

a paper background from

black watercolour pencil

(instead of charcoal).

I used collage papers from

The 2022 Artist Almanac,

newsprint text &

a torn page from an old book.

This was the last page in this chapter.

Next week I begin a new chapter

with the theme of

Modeling Paste & Image Transfer.