Hello and welcome back to the 100 days of collage challenge! I am undertaking the 100 Days of collage course on Skillshare run by Froyle Davies. You can join the course here! In this week's class, we explored using text in our work to give our collages narrative. Day 43: Crafting Dynamic Storytelling In this …
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Can you believe it? We have reached day 42 of 100 days of collage?! If you'd like to do your own 100 days of collage why not join the Skill Share class HERE. I have filled one art journal and have started a fresh new journal this week! Day 36: Celestial Skies In this class …
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It's week 5 of the 100 days of collage course! ( You can find it HERE). We have been exploring real and imagined worlds! This week was fun to try something different and explore adding narrative to our collages. Day 29: Steampunk Fantasy On day 29 we were tasked to craft a steampunk collage! Steampunk …
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I am now on to week 4 of the 100 Days of Collage class. You can find the class HERE. It is a skill-share class run by Froyle Davies. This week I have been experimenting with texture. For this challenge we looked at using different ways to create texture in our collages. We used fabric, …
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Week three of the 100 Days of collage challenge! (You can find the skill share course HERE) This week's focus was Mixed Media Mastery! For Day 15 our prompt was to create a mixed-media collage that explored the beauty of nature. We were encouraged to incorporate elements like leaves, flowers, or twigs. We created our …
I'm Continuing with my 100 days of collage project. This project is inspired by Froyle Davies. She has created the class, "Celebrate your creative self: Mixed media art class; 100 days of collage," on SkillShare. Days 6 and 7 of the course use two things that I love: layers and Gel plate printing! You can …
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This week I have started a little personal project to explore the world of collage. I'm specifically exploring how I can incorporate collage techniques into mixed media artworks. To do this I am planning on making a collage a day for 100 days! I am using the course "Celebrate Your Creative self- mixed media art …
Here is a small selection of the life drawings I have been doing over the past few months: Ruby, in blue and red pencil- I used repetitive circle shapes to represent femininity and motherhood. Tim, in 9B pencil- I concentrated on more angular shapes and high contrast to create a dramatic effect. Scott, in 9B …
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Over the past few weeks in my life drawing groups at Hush Art Group in Clitheroe and Life Drawing Blackburn I have been experimenting with layering figures on top of each other and using negative space to create these graphic images- the drawings can be turned in different directions and as you look different figures …
Thank you to all who followed along with me on my art journey this year, whether that be reading a blog post, following me on Instagram, visiting one of my exhibitions or purchasing an art work- in whatever way you've interacted and inspired me this year thanks so much, I really appreciate it. I will …
Mushroom Moon Designs 