COLLAGE : Made in Havana Cuba

Since we’re snowed in (again!) I took advantage and made a day of it in my art room.  I painted some boards to use as backgrounds for future collages and put together this little work.  The photo is one I’ve been holding onto for a long time.  I don’t even remember where it came from, but more than likely it was part of a collection of cabinet cards I got at a flea market.  So, little bits of paper, the label from a box of Cuban cigars, some tissue paper, and there you have it!  Oh and, after scanning it into the computer, I added a few shapes digitally as well.  Just experimenting.

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hatform

Every Christmastime, for years now, I’ve been making Christmas cards for a woman in town. She likes to include a story related to the card design, making them very personal. I also do other artwork for her-framed illustrated sayings, painted signs, decorative items. For this Christmas, she wanted to give her granddaughters replicas of some antique hat forms she had seen in an antique store. A carpenter made the forms and I painted them. This is the first one, wearing a cloche of mine.