New project

 Thank you for the comments on my Februllage collages-  I know some of you have not been able to leave a comment on the blog here but you have on the facebook post about the blog. I have looked and can't figure out why some people can and others can't comment.

I am doing a book collaboration with one of the small art groups I am in. There are 5 people doing this- we are to make 4 small collages for each person. Mine are near 4" x 6". So I made my 20. These are all done on actual gel plate prints not scans of them. All the collages are hand cut and glued.( analog) I had fun doing these. I am ahead of the game as these are not due until early May. Hope you enjoy. Here are the first 5 collages.  Instagram doesn't like rectangles all that much do I put the collages on colored backgrounds- I like the way they look with those so that is how I am posting these.

Phillip & George

Bart loved his birds.

The gift of a happy home.

Nate was known as the love Bandit.

Blake looked out for his neighborhood.

The last group of Februllage collages.

 Well here are the rest of the Februllage collages. Thank you for your kind comments. I really did enjoy that challenge. Starting to feel spring like here in New Mexico- good thing cause our furnace stopped working so we are dealing with that-  Here they are:

Prompt #22 is wings.

Last year I made a series of articulated paper dolls- I recreated them digitally for this prompt.

This is the second wing collage.

This is the third wing collage.

Prompt #23 is Journey. This is digital. Here is the quote that goes with this.

Everyone comes with baggage.

Find someone who loves you enough

to help you unpack.

I am so fortunate to have my dear husband. 

Prompt #24 is Me.

I digitally created this self portrait.

Prompt #25 is geometric.

The figures here are of me- at 4 years old.

 

 Prompt #26 is Listen.

This is a digital analog combination. I found the vintage ear illustrations and printed them on top of 

the colored background. I found the image of the man and altered him and cut it out and glued it to the 

background.

Prompt # 27 is sunflower.

This also is a combination digital and analog collage.

I loved the movie Everything is Illuminated and loved Elijah Wood in it. The movie came out

in 2005 and the visuals are terrific- there is a scene of a house in this field of sunflowers

that is burned into my memory.

Prompt #28 is Future.

This is all analog. The background is citrisolv paper.

The figure has a Magritte feel about it.  My friend Matt French loved

Magritte. So this is for him and a nice way to end the challenge.

The next seven Februllage Prompt collages

Here are the next group of Februllage Prompt collages.  Thank you for your comments on the other posts. In this group there are more analog collages.

Prompt # 15 is boat. this one  is a combination of digital and analog.

I like the letters in the water. I cut slits in the water to put them in.

Adrift on the Sea of Love.

Prompt #16 is Frankenstein. I decided to make 2 articulated dolls for this one.

I put the dolls on altered photos of mine to photograph them. This was fun.

Prompt #17 is Weep. I did two for this one as well.

This one is analog but I added the quote digitally.

This is the second collage for the weep Prompt.

Prompt # 18 is house. As many of you know I love houses so this prompt was fun for me.

I had started this house as a surprise collaboration for Matt French but he died before I sent it to him.

Matt loved making houses too so I finished this one for the prompt.

 

 

Prompt # 19 is tied.

Another word might be bond- a relationship between people or groups based on shared feelings, interests, or experiences.
"there was a bond of understanding between them" Not all bonds are healthy The background is a gel plate print on black paper. This is analog.

 

 

 This is another collage for prompt #19 tied.

The background is another gel plate print with the collage element

glued to it- so this is analog.

 Prompt #20 is strong. Both of these are digital- I had fun making these.

The bottom one reminds of of a stage set.

Prompt #21 is dinosaurs. I also made two collages for

this prompt. As you can see in the photo- I printed images out cut them out

and made the collages.  Thank you for taking the time to look at these.

There is one group of seven to go.

The next seven Februllage collages.

 Here are the next seven Februllage collages- I will put the title and prompt  and number below each one. I received a comment here in the last post that was from someone anonymous. The comment was hurtful- telling me I should grieving my brother that I have not spoken to in 7 years. Of course I deleted that and will continue to delete their posts. Of course they choose to hide their identity and remain anonymous. This person has no idea what was said by my family members. - it was bad enough that I severed ties with them.

The Februllage challenge was very good for me- things like this challenge keep me learning and creating. There are different things like this out there- some of my friends are doing the 100 day challenge- doing a project of their choosing for 100 days straight. I am busy with several collaborations with artists and I facilitate a collage group here in Albuquerque.  I am also a member of Libros- the large book arts group here in Albuquerque as well.

 

Prompt 8 was chocolate.

This collage is digital.

Arthur realized that Evelyn's chocolate addiction

needed to be dealt with.

 

Prompt 9 was Money.

This collage is also digital.

Edward could not be bought.

 

 

Prompt 10 was Ghost.

More digital fun.

Ned was having second thoughts about staying at this old hotel.

 

 

Prompt 11 was shoes

Another digital one

Three Gents with shoe envy.

 

 

Prompt 12 was Photograph.

Another digital ( I did do some analog ones later on)

No title on this one.

 

 

Prompt 13 was Celestial

Digital collage

They just realized they had left Jordon behind.

 

 

Prompt 14 was Life.

Digital collage on top of a gel plate print.

Where the seeds of memory were planted.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

February went so fast!

 It has been a busy month and an emotional one. I am still grieving the loss of my friend Matt French. Februllage happened- the challenge of making a collage each day of February using the prompts given. I completed the challenge. Here are the first seven.

 

The first prompt was fish.

 

Prompt #2 was Smile

Henry tried to hide his displeasure.

 

Prompt #3 was Mushroom

Malcolm liked his new neighborhood. 

 

Prompt #4 was bridge

Bridge to oblivion.

 

Prompt # 5 was cloth

Nathan knew Lucas was a man of the cloth

prompt #6 was cactus.

Prompt # 7 was Exit.

Ivan realized he forgot to lock the back door.

Hello February

 The start to the new year has been challenging. I found out a couple of weeks ago that my dear friend Matt French passed. I met Matt through Luis martin's CollageDream group.  That is how I met him. Matt had health challenges- he was only 55 and had 3 or more strokes in the past- had to have one of his arms amputated and a surgery caused him to be mute.  Despite all that this man had such a wonderful attitude and was so loving. He was also a terrific artist-  I have not cried this much in a long time- his art is all over my studio. I can not believe how intense my heartache is. I am afraid this is the start- we are of the age. Matt and I bonded deep quickly- we did several collaborations together. Some I have posted here in this blog and I also posted them on my instagram, terrygarrett763.

I went to my journal for comfort and to remember Matt French. This is in a journal I made with foldouts here and there- this one is 22 inches long. On the left is a self portrait painting Matt did. This has Matt's and my personal iconagraphical imagery. Matt listed his to me when we did our last collaboration. They included: pears, apples, butterflies, roses, keys, bees and skulls. Mine you have seen- chairs, houses, clocks, windows and birds. They have special meaning-they are our personal vocabulary. My heart still aches but I felt so close to you Matt- doing this spread- You are forever in my heart.

 

Happy New Year!

 Hello 2023.  I am hoping this new year is full of good health and love for you all.  Thank you for your reading this blog. As I have mentioned- I mostly post on instagram now- it is fast and easy for me. I came across a luminaria I had started at least 10 years ago maybe before that even. I think this was a project from the magazine Cloth, Paper Scissors. That magazine stopped publishing.  I got all motivated and made a few- These can be lit up with battery candles. These are all analog collages- meaning hand cut and glued to the background paper.

Here is the first one- each one I will show the front side and then the back side.

This is the front side.

 

This is the back side.

This is a view from above.

This is the front of the second luminaria.

This is the back side of the second one.

This is the front side of the third one. This one has a title:

The Temptation of Adam

Here is the back side of the third one. It also has a title:

Icarus Hesitates

This is the front of luminaria number 4.

This is the back side of number 4.

Here is the front side of the last one I made.

You are where you are suppose to be,

Here is the back side of the last one.

Friends can help us find the lost keys

to our personal happiness.