I cleaned my art table and made room to work on some large canvases.   I started out like I used to, to create a collage – going through images to find something to inspire me. I selected some images and laid them out on the canvas but nothing was working.  I started hearing that critical voice that told me I suck at collage.

The actual process of applying to paint to anything is very meditative for me. So, I decided to paint the canvas and just let the muse take over. Two days later I had finished three canvases and they aren’t truly collage.  More mixed media, I guess, but here’s the exciting part! Remember my last post where I talked about how I wanted to get back to collage but it would probably be different than it was before? Well, I think this new art is coming more from my soul than previously.

There is the art that you look at, then there’s the emotion and self-expression that’s in the piece. Doing these collages, I was not very interested in what the finished piece looked like to anyone else. I was expressing some important personal and spiritual things with these pieces. When I look at them now, I don’t critique them, I feel the message that’s in them for me.

Here are two of them.

It’s cloudy so it was hard to get a good picture.  On both of these, I used spackle.  I used it as the background in the one on the left, then glued paper dresses over it.    I created the dress from the spackle in the right one.  This spackle is so cool!  I feels just like shaving cream!  Then you can sand it later if you want.  It’s by Red Devil and it’s called One Time Spackle.  I bought it at Home Depot.