June, 2021
I decided, at least for now, to house the 31 March collage-a-day pieces into their own little handmade box. This one is a drop spine, and I have to admit the collage on top isn’t from March first, it is one with the best color-coordination!
June, 2021
These are the last of the black paper collages I’ve been making every day this month. I found out it’s a lot more important to be really neat with adhesives on black paper (yikes!)
The next questions is – to bind or to box?
June, 2021
Here is a color wheel full of found and manipulated papers to keep fueling my March 2021 collage-a-day on black paper project. In addition to the rice papers, some manipulated and some not, there are some ironed-flat plastics and some painted tree-trimming fibers.
June, 2021
I decided March, 2021 would be the month I finally figured out a use for a 6×9 black paper pad I’ve had hanging around for quite some time. I was originally inspired to buy it because my Atlanta Collage teacher Chery Baird made a beautiful series inspired by a trip she used to Alaska. I had a vague notion of focusing on using a lot of my more fodder and rice papers. And yes, there was a color scheme at play. Years ago I read a book by Louise Hay that matched up numerology with colors, assigning each year, month, and day with a color, individualized to each person based on their birthday (I know, I know). Anyway, it gave me a structure to work with. This photo shows where I am about half way through the month.