Mini Collage Number Twenty

Tear Out
vintage coupon, magazine cutouts, matboard
4 x 5 inches

Mini Collage Number Nineteen

Spin Cycle
vinyl, fabric paper, 1960's magazine image
4 x 5 inches

This was an 'O' from my failed letter series.  I had a really hard time naming this one.  Alternate titles: Whirlpool, Next, Pink Paradise.

Mini Collage Number Eighteen

Laundry Pile
magazine bits and pieces
4 x 5 inches

Literally used stuff out of my trash can.  Took longer than you'd think.

Hey!  Instagram!

Mini Collage Number Seventeen

Bargain
vinyl, coupon, magazine cutout, matboard
4 x 5 inches

Mini Collage Number Sixteen

Filler
magazine bits, matboard
4 x 5 inches

Mini Collage Number Fifteen

Vroom
magazine paper cutouts, painted paper, math book on matboard
4 x 5 inches

Nicotine, leaded gas, Vivaran, math.  Yummo.

Mini Collage Number Fourteen

Designed
'60s newsprint calendar, magazine paper, vinyl on matboard
4 x 5

That's Dick Van Dyke's hand.

Don't forget about Instagram!

Mini Collage Number Thirteen

Dialog
fabric paper, matboard, cutouts, vinyl
4 x 5 inches

Open for interpretation. 

Mini Collage Number Twelve

That One Time in Madrid
recycled old art, cutouts, colored pencil, vinyl
4 x 5 inches

That's Dick Van Dyke's arm.

Mini Collage Number Eleven

Drops
hand cut scraps from magazines 1950-2011 on matboard
4 x 5 inches

All hand cut drops from the trash pile.  Use it all, girls.  Use it all.

Mini Collage Number Ten

First Place
random bits of left over pieces on matboard
4 x 5 inches

The idea came together quickly in my head, but this one took longer than most.

Mini Collage Number Nine

Babes, Bumpers, and Birch
magazine cut outs, ink, matboard
4 x 5 inches

I do not know if that is really birch.  Probably not.  No apologies.

Mini Collage Number Eight

Ahh! Refreshing!
magazine images, vinyl, matboard
4 x 5 inches

Mini Collage Number Seven

It's a Party Now, I Guess
1940s newpaper, painted book page, magazine cut outs
4 x 5 inches

My foster kittens have been getting bigger, therefore more destructive.  I found this random piece of newspaper in the middle of the floor one morning pulled loose from my pile of ephemera by rambunctious little creatures.

See pictures of the furry devils on Instagram!  Art, too!

Mini Collage Number Six

Glamping
vinyl, painted paper, magazine cut outs
4 x 5 inches

Mini Collage Number Five

Braids and Eyelashes
magazine cut outs and fabric paper
4 x 5 inches

Mini Collage Number Four

Arthritis in Geneva
magazine cut outs, map from travel guide, vinyl
4 x 5 inches

I peeled most of the vinyl (in the shape of a 4) off and reused the front of this little one.  Shame to waste a good map, outdated or not.

Mini Collage Number Three

Class Reunion
painted magazine ad, found lady heads, book edge
4 x 5 inches

Guess which one of these women came from a hair dye ad.

Instagram!

Mini Collage Number Two

Fewer words, emphasis on images.  Shut up and look:

Bravo Bromilead
1960s coupon, fabric paper, 1970s plant book cut out
on matboard
4x5 inches

I actually bought the plant book, which made me feel silly, but I don't regret it.  I'm going to cut that mother up good!

Mini Collages

I'm going to start posting my collages because I want to share and this is a way for me to keep on with it.  Basically, these are exercises, like the ones from the last post, but mini.  I went on a tear and have almost depleted my 12 x 12 inventory of unused matboard, and can't buy more from a certain hobby chain for a big discount because they don't bundle them up anymore.  But I did make a ton of little 4 x 5 letters and such that didn't sell and I happen to still have them in storage, so I'm reusing!  It's my favorite!

See more of these, or groups of them, or them in process, on my Instagram feed, because it's FREE and FUN!

I will share these in the order in which they were made.

Number One:

Watchman
cutouts from magazines dated 1950-2011
painted 1960s book page

Stay tuned for more!  We'll see what they do to my larger work as I start back on bigger scale "canvases" (wood and such) and add lots more vinyl and paint to stuff.

Here's to 2016.  Let's do this.