30 January / Cold!

Today is to be a record cold day in our area.  Wind chills of 50 below are in the forecast.  A good day to stay in the house and play.  The trees at the Figge are all warm and snuggly!

29 January / White on white

This should be a post about all the snow we have, but I'd rather not even think about it!

Early in the month, girl's day out took us to the Figge in Davenport.  This heavily textured piece caught my eye.  Silly me - I didn't catch who created this.  I just know I like it!

28 January / Gelli / using page protectors

Still playing with gelli prints...

19 January

A few of my "morning tea" stitching pieces:

16 January / gelli papers

I've been enjoying making gelli/brayer papers for collage work.  No motivation to do collages, but I am loving paper making!

14 January / Figge Haitian Art

For my birthday, my family took me took the Figge to enjoy an Impressionist exhibit. Unfortunately the line was too long to ask everyone to wait. No way could my mom wait 3 hours to get in to look at art she wasn't particularly interested in viewing. 

Instead, we took in the art on the second level and even though I had seen much of it before, I enjoyed it.  The Haiti Collection, with it's bright colours, was very pleasing on a cold winters day.

12 January / collage class

I signed up for a year long online collage class.  Ambitious and crazy.

Week one:

Grid assignment:

Begin with a random shape collage. This one was easy.  The blue so looked like a dress.

This one was harder.  The beginning piece was an old shape that ended up being covered by other papers.  I will continue to play with it

The "stem" of the flower was the beginning piece. It too is in the "work on me" pile.