Crows of a Feather

Monoprint Crows

Using the medium weight cardboard from a discarded box

I cut out the crow shape to use

to print with.

I did use the crow shape and have some prints with it

but these are from the cardboard that was left behind.

I used some primer on it first.

I painted both sides to help it hold up to the painting and printing.

Then I brushed on a combination of black, brown and red paint

and printed onto a painted piece of newspaper for the top

bird and a painted piece of

cardboard on the bottom.

Another Dancer on the Page

Dancing Dancer

It's fun to add the dancer to different backgrounds.

The texture piece is lots of pieces of paper stacked and glued

 and more

stacking and gluing.

(One way to use up old newspapers)

Then they were primed with white and

then painted into their purple-black final color.

Lots of color changes in between along

with wiping and blotting to get variations in the color.

I laid that textured squares piece onto

the dark blue spattered paper first but it was just too dark.

 I added the lighter

rose colored pieces to create some contrast.

It's an interesting piece of texture without the dancer but

the dancer on the page

is my repeating theme.

Dancers on a Theme

Dancing Family 

Another collage from made papers....free form!

Figures Added

Painted Paper on Stamped Paper

 

Another Small Paper on Big Paper

Steps to This

Primed paper that is painted with a mix of black and gray.

I stamped it with found objects (small pieces of wood for triangles and

squares, cardboard letters, a triangle of wood)

Then I tried different pieces of painted junk mail in the center until 

....this....

Papers for a New Month

Paper piled on paper

Piled on after the table was overrun with painted paper

Piling painted paper together to move to the shelf

Painted junkmail laid on painted newspaper

More painted newspaper then some painted

corrugated cardboard 

and then interesting 

square, circles,fish......

Make it what you will

From the WorkTable

Crazy pile of papers and icons from the worktable. All of these

created from recycled junkmail.......too much junk mail tokeep up with

More from the same pile...same work space...

same painted up junk mail.....

a collage