My desk is a shameful mess this morning - and why?
Because last night after my visitors had gone I decided to have a go at the first exercise of 'Your Vintage Gluebook' course.
I know what you are going to say - namely that I have signed up for a few courses and haven't followed them through - and you are quite right!
There are many reasons for this - hence my trying this collage course. I am hoping it will help with my other areas of art work.
This is my first attempt.
It is a bit darker tham it appears on here - the colours being vintage, using mainly vintage ephemera.
Mary of Greenpaper said that 'you will not like your first attempt'. Well last night I did - I thought it was rather good for a first attempt - but this morning I didn't and picked 'holes' in it for all sorts of reasons.
The size of the book is 3.5 inches by 5.5 inches - so it's a bit small and having big arthritic hands and fingers I do tend to avoid small things as they are a struggle.
(Notice all the excuses!)
I have laid the page on a frame which helps to focus on the 'dislikes'.
The title of the backing book page, which is a vintage pale coffee colour - is off centre (wish I had used a frame last night!).
I tend to tear everything as I have trouble cutting out images, which is OK in straight lines but not so clever with the child and dog - old newspaper images, which were a bit thin.
I like the overlaid vintage rose drawing over the green vintage paper strip. I also like the torn at an angle, vertical vintage strip on the left hand side.
The vintage perfume bottle label, I thought looked nice last night as the colours matched - but now I realise that it is 'top heavy' and should have been smaller.
But I guess for a first effort - it's not bad!
I have spent the rest of this morning clearing up all the mess!
Lunch is 'calling' so just off to cook it, and I'll be paying a visit to other WOYWW participants
