HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Happy Halloween from my blue hubbard squash.

Mini Mixed Media Collages

I have been playing with leaves again all this week. I have had some mini wrapped canvases for quite a while now and have been looking for something to do with them. So I decided to use my tiny leaves in some collages. With paint, ink, vintage papers, hand painted papers, stamping, gold dust, and fibers they are very textural even with a finishing coat of beeswax. These were great fun to make and I hope to make some more. These are for sale in my etsy shop: http://pdlugos.etsy.com

Autumn life, Autumn art

Been away from the keyboard trying to spend more time creating and less time twittering, etsying, e-mailing, etc., etc. Autumn has arrived in Colorado and I have been reveling in it. I feel a burst in creativity that doesn’t occur any other time of year. One of my favorite Fall pastimes is to collect as many colorful leaves as I can find. I press them and use them to decorate my home. I also like to find ways to use them in my art. Here are some leaves I collected yesterday. I love their visual texture.

Here is the project I have been working on. It is a vintage book (1930’s) altered with matte medium, acrylic paint, tea-dyed fabrics , vintage lace and buttons, an Aspen twig and some beautiful pressed leaves. I included a sweet poem about Autumn leaves. I love the words and the rather childlike quality of it. I am so pleased with how it turned out because I was able to take these fallen leaves, which would have soon faded to nothing, and give them a second life.

More pressed lead art in my next post.