Taking on two month-long challenges in crayon and collage might have been a bit much, but I must say I’m having a lot of fun!
Yesterday I tore a plain square of book cover and pasted down my three hand-cut circles, completing Collage Challenge #1 in a less-is-more sorta way …
Next I tackled Challenge #2, taking two snapshots from many years ago, one left whole and the other cut into 1×1 inch squares. I proceeded to pencil a grid onto the back of a book cover, which gave me a much deeper appreciation of Agnes Martin’s 6×6 foot gridded canvases …
Then I took a page out of Ellsworth Kelly’s book (metaphorically speaking), and randomly pasted down the photo squares to complete the challenge …
Taking a break I picked up a library book to read …
which fell open to this page …
Well, that definitely left me primed for this morning’s crayon session …
Soon my crayons were scooting around Iowa like Democratic candidates and I began to notice the names of the counties were whispering stories in my ear …
people, places and things … associations triggered and then written. Note to self: crayons are not great for writing words, but process, not product was the goal …
Warmed up, I tackled Acey’s collage challenge #3: taking one large image and adding three smaller elements. What better than Gruene Hall and Lone Star beer caps?
But hmmm … copyright infringement loomed large as I read the notice across the top of the George Boutwell calendar page. So I ended up taking the rejected book cover from the other day and adding three Lone Star “pentacles” …
Here’s the cloth-coated back, trimmed with my handy corner clipper (a long-ago indulgence that I just happened to have in my craft pantry). But notice those loose threads around the edges … gonna have to work on that …
Last (I promise), I put it all into my first-ever art journal (a totally unexpected thing that just seemed to make sense with two daily challenges in the works) …
Now I can’t wait for tomorrow!
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