3 Ways to Use Mono Prints in Mixed Media

What to do with all those

yummy mono prints?

Today I share my favorite ways to incorporate them into 

mixed media and collage.. 

I love using them in my work and I hope you try out the techniques..

Use them as backgrounds, embellishments and as the subject..

what ever you do with them, they will enhance your work..

May your weekend be glorious..

gentle viewers..

Ciao, ciao!

Mini Concertina Video, Part Two

so dear hearts...

I thought you might want to see

this second video..

Garden Concertinas

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on 

this very grey

Saturday..

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Collage and Decollage

Work

in the studio

is sometimes a slow process...

I have been toying with

decollage lately..

in between

other projects...

for those of you who are not artists..

decollage is the opposite of collage..

decollage is achieved by cutting, tearing and removing 

collage bits to create something new...

peeled layers revealing print..

 straining to listen in on the conversation..

what would it say? what secrets are revealed?

the layers are so intriguing..

a perfect example of collage and decollage is the

unfinished piece below...

Decollage and collage piece, WIP, Caterina Giglio

and although I have no finished pieces...

to share with you yet...

some of the details are fun...

Besides that, I am

also working on some stacked collage 

below..

such busy days in the studio for me right now...

April pages are almost finished..

and I am working on my winter submission

for Sew Somerset...

AND...

 I have submitted my art book

the little concertina

to the gallery in Canada..

keep your fingers crossed for me..

you will be the first to know...

as always, thank you gentle reader...

C4N!

decollage

it seems I do a lot of ripping and tearing 

in the studio..

decollage

gluing things down and then

realizing that it does not have that atmospheric effect I want...

I tear it off and paint over...

tissue paper butterflies that I copied from an old book on butterflies.. dryer sheets and old book binding

for this new show, I will be using wings of all sorts...

and creating my own wings, some will be hand stitched..

or gilded

but all will represent freedom...

flight and moving to a higher, broader consciousness.. 

wing bits and old papers..

On my walk yesterday, I found these lacy skeletonized leaves..

which looked like wings to me...

and I just started on some tiny canvas, above and below..

the base coats... just  wips but after four layers..

I am happy with where it is going..

Paint and walnut ink, collage, decollage, and transfers on canvas..

and digging through my stash has been fun and disconcerting..

I have quite an unorganized mess..

so that will change in a larger studio

with a big walk in closet..

It is hard to believe that it is Friday again!

time just flies when you are packing boxes...

making art and sorting life and memories...

I think I will put my feet up early tonight

and have a glass of Cabernet

my one weakness you know..

back to the studio... 

C4N!