Art Talk: October 2016

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Starting From The Same Place... An Artist's Collaboration

Welcome to

"Starting from the Same Place" artist collaboration.....

What is this artist collaboration I speak of? Well, there was a call out to see if artists wanted to participate in a challenge of sorts...

We were all sent similar packages of bits and baubles and encouraged to use EVERYTHING our kit contained. It was a fun mix of vintage, handmade and fun finds. There was even a cool stencil from Stencil Girl! Thank you to Beacon Adhesives and Amazing Casting Products for contributing to this amazing group of artists and sparking our creativity!

I really had a hard time deciding how to approach this project. I was going to make a journal page, then I was going to make a mini album, but then I was in a craft store looking for something for another project and came across a small oblong box. It was begging to be altered! So alter it I did!

I loved using all the bits in different ways. First, I painted some with acrylic paints. The resin pieces were especially fun to alter! I hid the gear piece behind a window. The flower was painted to give a pop of color!

Found items like branches, feathers, and old paintbrushes were added to the back of the box. A collection of sorts... nature and manmade... a marriage of the two!

A fun item I created for the top of the box!

I LOVED this Viewmaster piece in the bits sent to me! Brough back memories of childhood. I loved incorporating both the envelope and disk!

A close up of some of the nature vs. manmade items.

I have no idea what these were from but I love the look of it overlapping the texture paste stenciled design. Splattered paint gives another element that provides texture.