I Haven’t Been Swindling Your Paper – Honest!
EDIT: The Paper Chase Project has now closed.
Can you believe it? It was in July that I started the Paper Chase! Some of you may have been wondering if I was ever going to make & send the promised collages, or that maybe I’d skipped town with all that paper. Well, fear not, I’m still here & I’m busily collaging.
I’ve received 36 packages of paper so far, & although I’m still more than happy to accept people’s parcels, I just want to let you all know that it might take me a while before I can post back the collages – I’ve had a much bigger response than I expected.
Thanks to everyone who’s participated so far – I hope you can be patient with me! Hopefully I’ll finish updating everything this afternoon.
Here are the first six collages (and the finished stamp that I put on the back of each collage) – I hope the recipients like them! I’ll be popping them in the post on Thursday!
I made Collage No.1 for artist Rosa Murillo. I love Rosa’s work & I hope she likes my little collage! The square of paper with the masked woman stamped on it is from a legal document from the 1880s that Rosa sent. The paper has a beautiful crinkly texture that I didn’t want to lose by gluing it down, so I cut a little window in the backing card. When you hold it up to the light, that section is kind of luminous – it reminds me of a watermark on a dollar bill.
Collage No.2 was made for Smoobage who sent a big pile of amazing vintage 7″ record sleeves. I really love the muted, drab colours.
Caroline of Peaseblossom Studio sent me some beautifully aged pages from a French dictionary. Collage No.3 reminds me of an 18th century entomological expedition to an exotic island somewhere.
Collage No.4 was made for High Desert Diva who sent me a lovely collection of vintage stamps & labels & things. I made a green & purple collage for her!
Moving on to Collage No. 5…Mandy sent me a really nice letter with her parcel of paper. She thinks the lining of envelopes are really beautiful (I agree with her!) & sent a little collection to me – I wanted to make her a collage that somehow incorporated their intricate patterns. I think this collage has something to do with the migratory habits of a big brown moth – he flies to Dublin each summer to stay with relatives apparently.
Lastly, one that I just finished this morning – Collage No.6 that now belongs to Joanne, aka Shaving Kit, who sent me a really colourful collection of paper. I wanted to give her collage a storybook feel…
So that’s it for now! I may not be able to get started on the next batch of collages for a week or so, since I’m finishing up on some gocco prints that I need to post off to the UK for an exhibition, but I’ll keep you posted on any further Paper Chase developments!
Those are spectacular! What a great idea – you must be like a kid on Christmas morning opening those packages!
OMG these are so so kewl!
I am so can’t hardly wait for my paper pack to be made into one of this gem!
You rule, Karena.
HUGS,
Bin
They all turned out so great!
they are all really inspired… such a great project… massive props to magic jelly for being all about true creativity and sharing … freaking love it x x x x x
They are wonderful! You must be the hardest working artist in Australia.
Linda
Cool looking collages!
They are all lovely. You do very nice work.
I forgot what I sent you! Thanks for documenting it here to visually remind me. (I’m #37) I can’t wait to get your collage. No hurry!
In the meantime, I think I’ll challenge myself and make a collage with the papers I sent you that I still have duplicates of.
~Sharon
http://e14studio.blogspot.com
So great!
Oh my god. I LURVE my collage. I want to live in it. Storybooks forever..thank you!! It was well worth the wait…. ;)
Oh and the little girl with the cigar totally cracks me up. Love it.
Excellent! I can’t wait. :-)
Those are all beautiful!
How fun!!!
So glad to have participated. Can’t wait for the collage!
I LOVE IT! can’t wait to have it in my hands! yay! thank you so much!
Hi there!
Actually I was just checking back here to see if you received my paper! If it’s not too much trouble, can you let me know? I was so excited to send it halfway across the globe! :)
xoxo
Marlies
wow these are amazing! such a fab and beautiful idea
I received my collage!!! Thanks so much.
These collages are GORGEOUS!
I can’t wait to see more! I’m sure you’re having fun with all of these. What a great offer, too. I am so excited to see mine (no rush! just saying!)
xoxoxo
Such a delightful blog full of mixed media eye candy! Glad someone told me about it :)
Meg
Your art is exciting & beautiful. I have very much enjoyed your BlogSpot.
Gee, thank you so much Sarah! :)
This project is filled with so much fun and goodness! You’ve made some really lovely collages! I can’t pick a favourite but i’d have to say collage 2 is cool! Like an andy warhol kind of print but so much more adoring! xxx