I look forward to Tuesdays now since our TukiTuki Art Collective
mornings are about having fun and learning something new. Last week we
met at a member's home in Waipukurau where Marie Neilson introduced us
to the craft of embossing. My favourite part of the craft was that it
involves "Sparkly Stuff".
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Busy having a ball! |
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Marie and Pam had also brought along items to
demonstrate stamping. After eeewing and ahhing over a Neapolitan ice
cream style ink pad in pinks and mauves we watched as she taught our
other Marie how to make a bunch of pansies. I have one stamp which I
bought for 50c on a sales table at our local scrapbooking shop so I may
actually get this out and use it now.
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Two Maries sharing stamping tips |
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I began a collage which I managed to finish
yesterday. Firstly I painted an A3 size piece of watercolour paper with
purple, alizarin crimson and cerulean blue acrylic paints. I then leafed
through some old glossy magazines (NZ House and Garden are my
favourites) for images that jumped off the page at me. I positioned
these before gluing with Mod Podge. I had also painted tissue paper with
watercolours and these were shredded and added to the mix. Later in the
week I applied impasto gel with a palette knife, nearly asphyxiating
myself in the process (safety note- make sure the room you're working in
has a window open) before adding more tissue and overlaying with paper
lace. I also added some tiny gold hearts with a gel pen but these aren't
easily seen in the photograph.
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"Airs and Graces" collage |
I realize some people look down their nose at collage
but when you consider that Picasso was one of the first artists to
employ it in his work I think they should begin to lighten up and smell
the Mod Podge. I probably won't be able to sell this collage but it was a
bit of fun and I inspired myself with some new ideas which I can put in
my future work. Following the example of one of my friends I will now
devote a visual diary to collage and feed that inner child. I think I
will have to live and extra fifty years to fit in all the new
things I want to learn plus find a rich sugar Daddy to fund them all.
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