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Stay Curious - Week 8

2/25/2018

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Like a child…
Wonder,
Ask questions,
Be a seeker,
Desire knowledge.
 
All without judgement.
 
Stay Curious
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Make it a HAPPY day!
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PS - As with all the pieces that I create this year for the One a Week Art Challenge, the original is not available for sale until January 2019 when I host my celebratory art show.

PSS - I do have prints available of this curious little number.
If you are interested in a print, click here.
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Four Flowers - Week 7

2/19/2018

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Week 7 -  I decided to create 4 small coordinating fun and funky flowers.
Blàth means flower in Irish Gaelic
entitled: Blàth
Blume means flower in German
entitled: Blume
Imbali means Flower in Zulu
entitled: Imbali
Zahra is the Arabic word for flower
entitled: Zahra
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And, As with every collage I make, things got MESSY! Bits of paper were EVERYWHERE!

Each flower is on a painted block of wood that is approximately 5" x 5" x 1.5".

And there were a variety of iterations before I decided on the final designs. 
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I hope you are enjoying following along on my 2018 One a Week Art Challenge.

Make it a HAPPY Day!
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PS - As with all the pieces that I create this year for the One a Week Art Challenge, the original is not available for sale until January 2019 when I host my celebratory art show.

PSS - I do have a print available with all four flowers.
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If you are interested in a print, click here.
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Choose Happy - Week 6

2/9/2018

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​We all have a choice. 

We can either see the world

As a terrible, awful, scary place,

Or as a wondrous, magical, happy one.

I choose happy!


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This week I had a great time creating my newest piece, Choose Happy. I am jazzed about how it turned out! So I thought I would share with you, a bit about the creation process.

A week or so ago I painted some new papers that I really like and Choose Happy is created almost entirely with these papers.
To create these textures I used solid color paper, acrylic paint and stencils.

I really appreciate the convenience of the dabbers on the Tim Holtz Distress Paints so they were the paints I grabbed first...but I also used acrylics dabbed onto a sponge.

The stencils that I used, I bought years ago, so I don't who makes them - but really, almost any stencil will work. I used the same stencil pattern, repeated again and again. I don't get hung up on perfection. The inconsistency of the dabs is what gives texture, interest, and character.

The color combination of the paper and paint is important to me. I tend make decisions on which papers to use in a collage based almost solely on the color. So I like to put similar colors together.

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The base of Choose Happy is a 2"x12" piece of wood that my husband cut and sanded for me. I recently started using scraps of wood for my collages and I really like the look and feel of it.

For the background, I started by painting the entire board white. After that dried, I added some torn pieces of dictionary pages with mod podge and then used pink (2 shades), pale yellow, and orange acrylic paints that I blended with my paintbrush and a paper towel.

I really liked the look of the background, but it was too bright for the flowers that I wanted to put on it, so I then white washed the entire board to make it more subtle.
After the background was done, I started to cut out flower pieces and parts using the papers that I had created the week before. 

Cutting and laying out the flowers involved a lot of trial and error. I cut out many shapes and laid them out on the background, then rearranged, and cut more shaped, and rearranged and cut more shapes,  and rearranged until I had an image that I felt good.
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Next, I glued down the flowers. While the mod podge was drying, I cut out various sizes and shapes for the flower's leaves and then decided where to place each leaf.

I also determined that I wanted to add the words "Choose Happy in the top left corner to create a focal point and to include a happy message as a part of the artwork. The letters were handcut and the most tedious part - but I do love how they turned out.

I hope you like it too!
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Make it a HAPPY day!
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PS - As with all the pieces that I create this year for the One a Week Art Challenge, the original is not available for sale until January 2019 when I host my celebratory art show.

PSS - I do have prints available of this happy little number.
If you are interested in a print, click here.
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