French Style Mannequin Drawings In my house I have a collection of vintage shop mannequins. I use them for my art group, as well I like to I draw them quickly when I get a chance. Recently I created a series of quick gestural drawings and just listed them in my French style shop Atelierinparis […]
Whats under your Bonnet? This was a fun project…I used a vintage 1960’s New idea magazine to cut out found words, phrases and images. Looking at my finished piece now, I can see the composition is all over the place with no central focal point and may change it in the future I found the […]
I loved making this collage using my collections of found papers and fabric. I started off with an old school exercise book cover from the 1930’s. It was full of hand drawn maps. I added stitching to the map and some found vintage graph papers, aged canvas and a did a little hand drawing on […]
Playing with negative spaces was a challenge for me. Though both negative and positive spaces appear in everything, we usually only see positive space but, in creating artworks, both areas are just as important as each other. I used many different types of found papers for this piece, including vintage wallpapers, dressmaking tissue, negative snowdrop […]
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 […]