"No Drizzle" Mini Collage

 "No Drizzle"

mixed media, collage

© 2011 by A. Dameron

 

Here is one of the first mini-collages I did in my new art journal. The label was part of a box of chocolate eclairs (gotten on sale). I thought it looked like a person with her arms holding something, and added the eyes, with a shiny cream wrapper background. :-D

Mini-Collage Art Journal

Here is my newest art journal. It's a hardback medium-sized Piccadilly journal with with plain pages. I got this at the Borders closing sale for 50% off. The strip above says 'Celebrate Creativity' and the 'distressed' sticker at the bottom says 'Recenly Discovered'.

I haven't done any mini-collages in quite some time now. I usually went through the Sunday paper and cut/tore out any pictures that appealed to me, even on a subconscious level. Later, I'd arrange and glue them down in arrangements and added sparkly glue, stickers, etc. When I was short on time (with 3 kids, that was normal), it was a quick and easy way to make art.

I want to get back into the 'habit', so this will be my mini-collage journal. I'll post some of these mini creations as I do them. 

Chocophoria: Collage and Poem

Chocophoria collage

This is a collage I made last year (2009) consisting of chocolate wrappers from all over the world, stickers and other chocolate-themed objects. Arnott's Original (Australia, aka "Tim Tams"), Whitman's (US), Cadbury Crunchie (UK), Aero (UK), See's Candies (US, San Francisco) and Lindt (Switzerland) among others. I've always been a chocoholic from waaay back in my childhood.

Chocolate in Many Languages

cioccolato

Chocolat , Sjokolade

Qâiokèlì, cokoláda, tsokolate

suklaa,  shokolade, siocled, coklat, seacláid,

sôcôla, Schokolade, sokolaad,

chokoreto , czekolada.

Chocolate.

(Italian, French, Afrikaans, Simplified Chinese, Czech, Filipino/Tagalog, Finnish, Russian, Welsh, Malay and Indonesian, Irish, Vietnamese, German, Estonian, Japanese, Polish, English)

All writing and art copyright A. Dameron 2000-2010

Art and Writing: A Collage of the Mind

I was very fortunate to meet a wonderful group of women at a "retreat" in Asheville, North Carolina, in 2005. Nine lovely women met at a cabin in the mountains, and we spent time laughing, eating, drinking and sharing our dreams. We found common ground, despite nine different backgrounds. It was a heady time. We visited new restaurants in downtown Asheville, sought shelter in a bar from a sudden downpour, played board games in our pajamas. I was pregnant with my older daughter at the time and was full of hopes and dreams.

One of our activities was collage-making. We searched through magazines and cut pictures and words that described our dreams. Here are two of mine: the one on the top has the theme, "What are you Waiting For: Oh, the Possibilities". It shows some of my "true colors" of my personality. Jewelry-maker, Virginia Tech alumna, chocoholic, musician, reader.  These are the facets of me.

The page on the bottom is a "Glimpse of the Future". A trip to the Pacific Rim, Healing of Body and Soul, triumph over depression, and flying straight and true like an arrow from a bow. (My zodiac sign happens to be Sagittarius.)

Try collaging and see what you come up with. You just might be surprised.

All writing and art copyright A. Dameron 2000-2010