Poetry Found

My second attempt for this Found Poetry swap was a bit more difficult but much more successful.  This time, I used pieces of Post-It Notes to cover my words and only had a tiny little tear which I was able to fix.  The hard part was trying to find the right words for my poetry.  In the end, I had to change the word "ignorant" to "ignore" and then it all came together.  The image for this piece was re-purposed from a postcard I received and I want to give credit to the original artist Wendy Paula Patterson for her beautiful imagery.

art

like

a party-colored dress

promiscuous

and hard

to

ignore.

Lost Poetry

Occasionally things don't always turn out in my studio.  This week's epic Fail came while working on my Found Poetry canvas for an upcoming swap at Paper Traders.

I have seen this technique gaining popularity and was anxious to try it myself.  I had read online that another artist used MasquePen to block out her words so she could paint over the rest of the page and then remove the masque when she was done.  Sounded perfect!

The paper I was using was quite old so I tested the MasquePen in several methods: straight paper, over clear gesso, over clear acrylic sealant, and over clear gesso covered with clear sealant.  The last seemed to work wonderfully so I prepped my pages and went to work.

Below is what happened to me when I tried to remove the masque...  Two section of masque pulled the paper right off the page and my words with it.  So sad!

I decided I will salvage this piece by reprinting my poem and gluing new words over the top.  But will have to start from scratch on a new piece for this particular swap.  Live and learn.  (For my next piece, I'm going to try using Post-It Notes to cover my words...  I'll let you know how it turns out.)

mourning

love,

thrown aside,

and

Haunted forever by

all

which is not to be

Mom's vacation

I've been absent from here for the past couple of weeks because I've been busy having fun with my Mom =)

On April 19th, I drove to Vernal UT to pick up my mom who had traveled there for a wedding... it was a 7 hour drive for me each way but so worth the trip to have her come for an extended visit. The past couple of weeks we've done our share of shopping, eating, shopping, creating, and more shopping and eating - LOL!

Yesterday, I drove her up to Casper WY (a 5 hour trip this time) where we met my sister and her daughters. We all stayed together in a motel and then they took my mom home the rest of the way to Cody.

While she was here, I did manage to get a little bit of art done. Below is the ATC I created for the Paper Traders monthly lottery as well as the spread I made for Marion's "Deep Sea of Poetry" art journal in our Paper Traders Round Robin.