Collage Tutorial 12. Stickers. Stamps. Stencils.

This collage links to my interest in the world of vintage advertising, Pop Art and Andy Warhol Once again I worked in layers Starting with a base layer of distress inks, paint swatch stickers and hand painted papers, I then added vinyl tape and letters Finally, more paint swatches with vintage stamps, stencils and ink […]

Collage Tutorial 1 “Artplay”

My first practical day of the “30 Days of Collage” by Stephanie Levy course. It was Melbourne Cup Day  so this was an excuse for me to grab a (naughty snack attack) stash to help me along with my artplay day. I gathered all my paints , crayons, salt, tapes and began. The first lot […]

Collecting Wallpaper & Florence Broadhurst

Many years I have collected wallpapers from all over the world. My favourite Australian designer would have to be  Florence Broadhurst Her designs are bold, abstract, wild, organic, colourful, patterned, textured,sophisticated and just beautiful. Florence Broadhurst was exotic, eccentric, flamboyant, enigmatic, opportunistic, pioneering: all this and more. Florence Broadhurst designs here A book about ‘Florence […]

Rosebud OP Shop Crawl. Collecting Vintage.

Rosebud OP Shop Crawl. Collecting Vintage. Last week I spent a lovely day with my mum exploring the OP shops in Rosebud on the Mornington Penisular. 6 vintage silver cups with amazing patina sitting on a vintage Sheffield silver tray   A gorgeous piece of Antique French Filet lace. 6 gorgeous crystal glass Chandelier dangles […]