Mather Class: Working with Sourced Papers and Enhancing.

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I'm a history freak, so long ago, I saw this sheet of old Globe prints wrapping paper, I used one piece for a gift and then saved this piece deep in a pile of papers and magazines.

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The prompt for class was to use a paper source, magazine photos, or artwork to create and ENHANCE into a composition. I thought this would be fun.

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I didn't take photos as I was working...you know when you are in the groove, you forget about everything. I worked on black cardstock, and layered bits and pieces here and there.  

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After getting a rough composition, I began filling in areas and extending lines of the globes' edges. Ferns and palms added the perfect tones to accent the land areas. 

I used some alcohol based metallic markers that are excellent on dark papers. 

The print's shorelines are pretty accurate, but the inlands are empty and even blank. I left quite a bit of space around the nine or so pieces I glued onto the black paper. Then I began to think about dangers sailors/explorers had to face on their journey.

I wanted to tell a story.

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Something about the entire pieces of globe and how small the 'Americas' were and also how incomplete. In the 1600's America was roughly known...mapping was still a limited art, and took many hours and miles across the sea to implement a map through triangulation.

Besides the idea of a round globe on flat paper...you had the 'Unknowne Land' or lands full of shores that had not been searched, and mountains never climbed. 

On the dark areas, I applied one/two layers of light blue tissue with modge-podge over, then with a wet second coat on top, I started to tear the tissue and move the gooey bits around, scratching and marking with handles  of brushes and a pin. What I created was a black hole, or the 'Unkowne' of a never ending seascape. The dark was enhanced with various markers and a white paint pen that I smeared to give the foam upon the sea...the blues and browns were sprayed and rubbed on alcohol inks. 

Working on surfaces  of dried Modge-podge is wonderful with inks. If you do too much you can easily remove most of it with an alcohol soaked tissue or q-tip. 

I don't really know how many layers I used of everything...just kept applying, removing, covering up, and adding again.

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What would a sea story be without a denizen of the deep...?

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Here you can see the layers and the shimmer of the markers....really a fun project ...and I hoped you enjoyed my  'Journey'. 

Materials for Collage

Black heavy card stock 8 1/2" x 11" 

Cuts from thin wrapping paper

Glue stick and Modge-podge

Permanent Black marking pen

pale blue tissue paper

Umber Alcohol ink

Turquoise Alcohol ink

Royal blue Alcohol ink

Red Sharpie marker (this was the only red that would be bright on top of all the materials).

Metallic permanent markers. 

White paint marker fine and brush ends.

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Inspired by Leaves, some kind of Mandala

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My Creative Mindfulness Class with Casey on Mather was on Monday. The entire month of October is themed on Leaves. 

This was a fun project, to cut out leaves from decorative papers (I used a bit of everything) and create a Fall Mandala. Well I chose Fall since the tones of my hand-painted papers were in golds, browns, and greens. I threw in some orange Cardstock for a solid and used a cardstock brown background

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You can see the paper cutouts to the side and some of the papers I used.

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Simple materials and open instructions always makes a project fun. We were encouraged to add decorative elements. I still may work some more on the background to make it darker.

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These are the markers I've used so far. First time using my Artists Loft Acrylic Markers from Michaels. Nice saturated color and dried quickly, tip is a bit mooshy. 

My Alcohol markers and some metallic markers....and a trusty Sharpie. I really need to buy a couple of super wide ones.

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An interesting direction was to fold and mount the leaves for a 3D effect. 

Since I chose some patterned papers, I did limited designs on those.

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This class was only an hour but I puttered for another 40 minutes after class...still thinking about darkening the background.

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I cheated a bit and measured out a circle underneath all this to maintain a good balance with my pieces. And I think that was a good idea. I had planned to use not necessarily balanced pieces...so at least having them in correct alignment helped ot keep this very measured. Again, I ended off the paper, so displaying this will require some sort of border or expansion of this piece.

Great idea for kids and just for fun. I think I will use this as a display piece for the season.

What sort of Art

 have you been doing for FALL?

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