Black and white film...

I have been participating in some photographic exercises from Chris Orwig's book People Pictures.  I have to say that it's been interesting but very hard for me to keep up.  I think we are on week 8 but today I'm posting week 3.  The reason it's late is because it's black and white film.  After taking the pictures I had to send it away, which took over a week, and I just got it back.  So sad that it's such a bother to shoot film.  I shot film for 25 years and really resisted going to digital but I have to say that I love it.  I used to have a dark room with all the chemicals and such and I also loved that.  It was a challenge to go back to film and now I want to do more of it.  We were to pick 5 of our favorite pictures after shooting a full roll.  My favorites were of my niece.  Instead of 5 I picked 3.

More collage work...

I've been challenging myself for the past 2 weeks to create a new mixed media piece each day.  My husband has been traveling so it's been fun to do this to pass the time.  I've also created a new line of cards from the ones I like the best.  They will be available soon in my handmade shop.  I hope you like them...enjoy.




A week off....


This week I was supposed to be working on exercise #6 from Chris Orwig's book but I have to confess that I played hookie from photography.  Instead, I decided to work on several small mixed media projects to get my creative juices flowing.  I really love creating mixed media art and I am very happy when I can incorporate my own photography into a piece. 
I cut several pieces of water color paper into 6 x 6 squares and then applied gesso to both sides.  I decided to make it into a book for myself so I could go back and look at it when I needed a little inspiration.  Everyday I tried to complete one square and tried to do something different each time.  
I think if you read art and photography blogs you will find that so many artists love the creative process and I'm no exception.  If my heart is heavy or my stress level nearing its peak I love to be transported to another place.  Taking my camera out or creating a piece of art just makes me so happy.  For me that is a really good thing.
Here are a couple of pieces that I did.  I transferred my photographs of the coffee cup and the cherries using matte medium. I'm going to continue this week so I will have more to show another day.  I have 9 so far.