My Own Path

It's another wet and dark day that will be dedicated to stitching. It's my own fault that I'm having to work non-stop on a quilt that should have been ready by now. During the summer months I was much more inclined to pick up a paint brush than a needle and as a result I sabotaged my own schedule. The one thing I did do every day were these daily collages that were made during an online workshop I did with Shelley Klammer. This one was done on the 5th July in a 5 x 8" Moleskine journal.

I have restarted the process again from yesterday, making a collage every day for 30 days, using just magazines, a glue stick and a pair of scissors. It's quick, and it's fun and it is also a way to make art without getting my head in the way. The idea is to mine what you have made for messages from your subconscious, a bit like the Morning Pages advocated by Julia Cameron in her book The Artist's Way, but using images instead of journalling.

Enchanted Midsummer Days

The title definitely doesn't refer to today's weather! I was caught out in a torrential downpour earlier.

Instead the Enchanted Midsummer Days refer to the collage shown above. I made it on the 3rd July when I was in the process of doing a series of daily collages in an A5 sized moleskine journal as part of an online class by Shelley Klammer. It involved making a collage first thing every morning for 30 days by grabbing a magazine (no shortage of those in this house!), tearing out the images that attract your attention as well as some text and putting it together. During the day you then reflect on the collage to see what it has to tell you.

I started on the 24th June and finished on 24th July and have done some more collages in a sporadic fashion since. Looking back at all of them has made me think I might give it another go soon. I'm going to show you some of the ones I like best whenever I have a spare slot in my blogging calendar.

By the way the church in the collage is located in Amalfi and I have visited there many years ago, which was what I attracted me to it's image, and the sun always gets my vote!

 

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