As promised in my last blog post, I am featuring a few miscellaneous art pieces created from the leftover “scraps” of a recent collage project. After selecting and cropping out eleven 5×5″ collage compositions from a larger collage on paper creation, there were lots of smaller, miscellaneous pieces still left (pictured above). I went through them with an ATC-sized template and chose four sections that I thought would make nice ATC’s (you can read more about ATC’s on my website by clicking HERE). I may add more embellishments to these before I declare them completely finished!
After I cropped out the cards I still had a nice size pile of scrap pieces left. I laid them out in several arrangements and came upon one that I was really happy with so I continued to build on that. Using the basic assembly techniques that I use in my mixed media pieces I built up the composition in several different layers & heights, then added a few additional embellishments to vary the texture. Finally, I secured all the pieces in place. If you’ve not noticed in previous creations I love uneven numbers, particularly the number three when I am creating art. Many of my pieces have groupings of three items within them. This one has several sets of three similar objects in it, which made coming up with a title easy!
I assembled this in a different orientation but once it was finished I turned it all four directions and decided I liked the way it presented facing this direction. I am sometimes surprised at how the finished product ends up, but as long as I’m happy with it ultimately that’s all that matters. Seems like there’s a life lesson in there somewhere too – looking at all sides of a situation – but I’ll leave that for you to muse on instead of spelling out my thoughts on the subject.
Eyes open,
Lynne
