Just for a change I have abandoned fabric and threads and have completed a collage, still under the theme of "Seen From Above".
A few months ago I bought a Gelli Plate so have been experimenting and watching demos on You tube! For anyone who, like I used to, thinks that you can do mono prints on a sheet of glass so don't need to spend, let's face it, quite a lot of money on a Gelli Plate .... well you're wrong! They are superb so if you need convincing try to get on a course or see a demo in person to be convinced.
Having produced a large stack of printed papers I had to do a collage so used the isle of Portsea as my subject. We go to Portsmouth quite a bit so it seemed appropriate.
I started by painting an A3 piece of cartridge paper with orange acrylic as the background and then used various printed paper for different areas of Portsea, leaving small spaces in between all the pieces so the orange showed through. I used the same orange acrylic to paint the edges of a canvas frame and then collaged blue printed papers as the sea surrounding the island.
To use up the left over pieces, I made some cards!
