Valentine Wishes

Hope your Valentine's Day was filled with love and creativity.

Art House Sketchbook Project

I'm participating in the 2012 Art House Sketchbook Project.

Titled Urban Reflections, this is the first page spread.
you can get a video peak here.

ReVision @ Creekhouse

Been busy organizing a 10-day art exhibition and festival to be held July 8 to 17 on Granville Island in Vancouver.  http://www.revision-theartofrecycling.com/

Experimenting in plastic bag fusing to make some entrance banners for the event.

The Bag Lady's Garden

Work on the plastic project continues.
Besides the flower petals, I also made leaves.
I've assembled about 100 flowers, using wire and buttons.
The dining room table has been transformed into a garden.
I think I need another couple of dozen flowers before I can finish.
Thanks to all who donated bags to enable my bag habit.

Weekend Playtime

Eagerly anticipating some weekend fun.
Hope to get down to more plastic forming.

On Being a Bag Lady

My latest project uses plastic shopping bags. My friends are collecting coloured plastic bags for me. I've become a "bag lady". My art room is a wild assortment of bags filled with bags.

I'm having fun experimenting with melting and fusing them into 3-dimensional shapes. I'm hoping to create a large wall sculpture with different colours of plastic shapes for the ReVision recyling show later in the year. It's a long process. I'm needing lots of bags.

Caged Birds

Back to playing. this time with a Sizzix die called Caged Bird.
Birds and cages were cut using thick book board.
Yellow bird painted with acrylic transparent ink, the blue bird uses a distressed stamp ink. Both birds stamped with permanent black ink.
The background are small collages