Paper Art Explorations from Mather

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Hi Everyone, I hope you are enjoying our lovely Fall. 

Here in Illinois it was in the 90's yesterday..even in NE Illinois. However we get daily reports of all the birds migrating overhead. We are on a direct flyway from Horicon Marsh in Wisconsin, and we had a huge flock of Canadian Geese overhead a few days ago.

My Mather Paper Explorations class this month was about a Birds' Journey. I worked on a collage over a watercolor 'play' piece which I had set aside to dry a few days back on multi-media paper.

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This prompt was Birds in Flight and I thought this would be a great background for the 45 min class theme.

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Watercolor washes and loads of paper I had made previously. The birds are cut in multiples from cardstock. All the prints/papers were ripped. I find that action so soothing and also energetic...how can that be both???

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I use gluesticks to attach all my torn pieces, ...and then planned to seal the whole thing. Since everything is in watercolors I sprayed it first with workable fixative to secure the watercolors. 

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I titled this "Racing the Storm".  Many species of Birds have to travel thousands of miles instinctively to reach Winter quarters. Our feeders are very busy this time of year, this week we had a Pileated Woodpecker juvenile in the trees here for a few days and now he is gone. 

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Is this a great work of art...NAH...but it was fun, timely and a gentle reminder we are all on a Journey of sorts! 

Again, working with a time limit really helps and I'm learning to quit...instead of over ponder and mess it up.

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May Your Journey move you 

this Fall season???

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