Mid-Winter Maker's Marketplace

Paper Owl Artists will be at the FAU-Jaffe Center for Book Arts Mid-Winter Maker's Marketplace, Sunday, December 3, Noon to 4 pm.  We'll have a wide assortment of handmade greeting cards, journals, and paper collage.  Come visit us if you're in the area.  There will be a number of vendors, live music, hot coffee, tea, and yummy donuts for sale!

Mark Making Morning

I had some tea left this morning, English Breakfast Tea, to be exact.  I used what was left to do some marking on a wonderful piece of brown packaging paper.  So fun and easy to do!

Paper collage and Origami Reading for a Sunday Afternoon

It's Sunday.  Jeff worked around the house for awhile while I wrote Penpal letters then took a nap.  (I LOVE my naps!). After a run to the market for this week's groceries we both settled in for a little bit of reading.  

Jeff had found an origami book in the used book section of our library.  For a quarter, he couldn't resist it.  While the origami in the book is easy, he found a couple of fun items to make that kept him humored awhile.

And while Jeff played with squares of colorful origami paper, I researched glue and finishing techniques and instructions in Crystal Neubauer's book, The Art of Expressive Collage: Techniques for Creating with Glue and Paper.  I love her work and wish I lived near enough to where she teaches.  Rumor has it she'll be coming out with some technique videos this fall.  

Thankfully, I found what I was looking for in her book and need now to apply the materials and techniques to my collage work.

If you're interested in beginning origami or paper and glue collage, these are two resources I highly recommend! ... So now, is it time to play with collage fodder, write another Penpal letter, make dinner, or take another nap .....  Oh how I love Sundays!

Fun with Scanned Paper Collage

I'm reading and working through the exercises in Randel Plowman's Collage Worrkbook:

It's a wonderful book that explains collage materials and techniques, and provides 50 collage project prompts to get your motor running.  I played with #32, Scanned Collage.  I randomly put pictures (and items) on a copier machine, pressed the copy button, and voila', my resukts!  Each collage is 4"x4", mounted on a manilla file folder, which is all I had available when I made them.  Definitely a fun exercise.  I'd definitely make more if I had more time!