Torn

I have always loved doing collages. There is something satisfying about tearing up paper and then gluing it together to make something new. In high school, I collected a variety of magazine pictures and made myself a huge collage to hang on my wall. I could never bring myself to throw it away.

Most recently I have made a collage of a snail. Random yes, but so fun! My friend Maggie needed art for her new apartment. So we decided to each get a canvas and create the same picture using different mediums. We let Megan, her daughter, to pick the subject-so she picked a snail! Then we each chose our medium: Maggie chose pastels and cut paper, Megan chose acrylic paints, and I chose to do a collage with different stationary and art paper.

Maggie found an image on the Internet and then we all went to town with our art project. It was so much fun! When we were finished we hung them on the wall. Maggie decided that would be fun to have anyone that comes to visit draw/paint their own snail. I loved the idea of making art for someone else, and now want to do this when friends come to my house.

Left by Maggie, Top right by Megan, Bottom right by Me