Friday, June 9, 2017

June's Postcard of the Month
Poppies.
Yes - I've done Poppies for June before - the first 3 June PoMs* were Poppies - I just couldn't help it.

1st. production parameter for June's cards:
As Few Steps As Possible!!
Time was a'crunchin' as I was finishing up getting readyfor the Espresso Bueno collages to go up.**

First prototypes:
Yeah, ok, but pretty much done it (see footnotes).
So then, this:
Which is what I went with - with the addition, on the final ones, of one little red dot.  :-)
And which ended up comprising only SIXTEEN steps! :-)  :-)

And... Got to use my favorite little bee rubber stamp.  :-)

The Fixin's

Steps: The Movie:



The Steps

I often glue down the pieces of music as the first step.
Which is often the trickiest step - I often measure (with my beloved transparent pica ruler)
to make sure that my horizontals and verticals are all straight/parallel.
It can throw the whole thing off, if it's skewed even a little.  Hurts the eye.  
Which is not to say that some slippage doesn't happen - sometimes I get cocky and think my eye is just fine (usually it is, but...), and sometimes it'll slide around as the glue is drying.  :-/
I love this charteuse tissue paper that I found at the grocery store - can't stop using it!


Just needed one more little spot of red.

Panels of 21 of June's PoMs


Fin.

*The previous June Poppy PoMs:
June 2012
June 2013
June 2014
**Since, March, I've been working on several large(r than postcards) collages - on canvas - to hang on Bueno's walls for June and July.  I'm going to write a separate post re: the Espresso Bueno http://www.espressobueno.com/ (Barre, VT) display.  
Sneak peek:
Poppies!!  :-)




Thursday, June 8, 2017

Espresso Bueno Walls
On June 1st., Mule helped me hang 27 collages of various sizes on the walls at Espresso Bueno, in Barre, VT.  They will be up through July.
Here's a little slide show tour:
Photos of the large collages
- 5 of which were done specifically for this venue/summer display -
that were done on stretched canvases:
Chickory II, 2017
Poppies I, 2017
Poppies II, 2017
Detritus Village, 2017
Tall Pines, 2017
Sunflowers, 2014
Summer Portal I, 2015
Summer Portal II, 2015



http://www.espressobueno.com/