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.

Charity Postcard Collage Challenge - October 2022

After a six month break,

I've joined in with this month's

Postcard Challenge

at

Contemporary Collage Magazine.

Using no other paper material

than is included in your personal pack,

the challenge is to make a collage

on each of the two blank postcards provided.

An idea usually originates

from a point of interest.

A combination of images make-up

a world of memories and fantasy.

As usual, some of the challenge fee

is donated to charity.

Charity Postcard Collage Challenge - April 2022

Another month,

another Postcard Challenge

from Les & Molly at

Contemporary Collage Magazine.

Using no other paper material

than is included in your personal pack,

the challenge is to make a collage

on each of the two blank postcards provided.

My first one is entitled

CREATIVE CHAOS

It's bold, it's bright,

it's abstract -

it's not my usual style.

The second is entitled

THE FINEST ALL ROUND

Back to storytelling

& muted tones.

I really enjoyed the challenge again,
especially as I know that

I have helped raise money

for a worthwhile charity,

as part of the cost this month

has again been donated to UNICEF.

Charity Postcard Collage Challenge - March 2022

Another month,

another Postcard Challenge

from Les & Molly at

Contemporary Collage Magazine.

Using no other paper material

than is included in your personal pack,

the challenge is to make a collage

on each of the two postcards provided.

My first one is entitled

DOLCE FAR NIENTE

The second is entitled

TO BE UNDERSTOOD

This travelled from England, UK

to North Carolina, USA 

to Michelle Schenker

Jan 2023

I really enjoyed the challenge again,
especially as I know that

I have helped raise money

for a worthwhile charity,

as part of the cost this month

has been donated to UNICEF.

Charity Postcard Collage Challenge

Once a month, Les & Molly at

Contemporary Collage Magazine

put together collage packs

for a postcard challenge.

Using no other paper material

than is included in your personal pack,

the challenge is to make a collage

on each of the two postcards provided.

That’s it.

The first one is entitled

LIFE.

Life

The second is entitled

SPLIT PERSONALITIES.

Split personalities

Both were featured in October 2022 digital issue

of the magazine.

I enjoyed the challenge immensely,
especially as I know that

I have helped raise money for a worthwhile charity,

as part of the cost will be donated by CCM to

Art Refuge.

Tate Collage Postcard

I was privileged to visit both the
Kurt Schwitters
& the
Roy Lichtenstein
exhibitions at the Tate in London last week,
one at Tate Britain, the another at Tate Modern.

Although more than just a river separated them,
through my eyes they had much in common.

This is a postcard collage as a memory of my day,
which will be placed in my journal.

If you were able to see either of these exhibitions,
know either or both of their works,
I hope you will enjoy this piece.

Photographs from the day can be seen here.

The Schwitters closed yesterday,
but the Lichtenstein is open until the end of the month,
so there is still time to visit if you can.

Connecting through Art

If you saw my Liberate your Art postcard tribute last month, you may be wondering what happened to

all the postcards that Kat Sloma received & sent out.

Together with her helpers, Kat sorted through 1290 postcards from 216 artists from 11 countries.

If you visit the link below you will be able to see an amazing, inspiring slideshow of all the postcards,

together with links to the responses from the participants.

Postcard Art

The Liberate your Art project, organised by Kat Sloma, is a way

for artists to share their own artwork with like-minded artists.

Participants reproduced copies of their original art in postcard form, sending five copies to Kat, who then mailed five postcards back from five different artists.

If you click on the button below you will find a list of those taking part this year, with links to their artwork.

In tribute to the project, I have made my own postcard sized image.

I photographed a page from my altered book

then added the words from a poem I wrote back in 2010.

Here are the details of how the original background was created.

The book page was first coated with a layer of clear gesso.

Once dried, I added colour using Eco Green Crafts acrylic paints

(Pistachio, Tide Pool, Waterfall & White).

Whilst the paint was still wet, I sprinkled Ranger Perfect Pearls

(Blue Patina & Green Patina) 

& splashed some diluted Ranger Distress Ink over the top (broken china).

The layers shown are watercolour paper coloured with

four Ranger Distress Inks

(pine needles, broken china, peeled paint & weathered wood).

The glass is a Robin's Nest Dewdrop.

Some of the original printed words still peep through the coats

of gesso, paints, inks & powders.

I love the blended colours of watery blues & greens,

with the varying textures from the gritty gesso base,

the torn & cut watercolour paper to the hard glossy glass.

The light bounces back from the glass & is caught by the iridescence of the powders.