#handprinted and #foundpaper #collage ‘Field Worker’

I have books! And two book birthday events planned in mid-March. #creativity #creativekids #kidsnonfiction

#collage using #foundpapers and #handprinted pages.

Made an art journal from an upcycled book cover and two signatures of assorted papers.

Another small ‘portrait’ using a vintage image.

Foursquare No. 2 with ‘leftover’ collage

One more Christmas present. ‘Foursquare #1’ #acrylic and #handpainted papers inset on cradled board frame.

Paint chip collages.

Two new small #collage ‘portraits, using found papers.

Mixed media and handpainted papers #collage on cradled board. Christmas present for my daughter.

Working on a few collaged Christmas presents.

Day 20 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge #Books #20Books

Day 19 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge #Books #20Books

#collage Playing with burlap and handprinted papers and corrugated cardboard.

Thoughts on Pantone’s Color of the Year? I love it. Can look great with stark white, cream or deep contrasts of orange, jade, teal, lime, black, ruby… But then I have always loved and used neutrals in art, sewing, knitting and in my home. #Pantone

Day 18 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge #Books #20Books

Day 17 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge #Books #20Books

Day 17 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge #Books

Day 16 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge #Books

No. 15 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge #Book

Lovely. Simplicity itself!

O, Happy Sunday! This morning I am reading ‘All We Want: Building the Life We Cannot Buy’ with my morning tea, and later rejoining the Nanaimo Unitarian Fellowship choir after a few years’s hiatus. Later, a drop-in collage session at my local library.

No. 14 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge #Book

This 'nice little earner', from 2012, has been published in Korean, Australian, in audio in five European languages and the digital edition - in English - is still available from Orca Book Publishers.

No. 13 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge #Book

Orca Book Publishers pulled this from my upcoming book. A reminder that everyone can be creative in one way or another. #creativity #creativelyhumannfforkids

No. 12. Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge #Book

It’s good to have friends who know what might be useful in yr #mixedmediacollage work.

Day 10 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge #Books

Back in the classroom in February. One of my favourite places to be. Nanaimo, Vancouver Island. #lifewriting #memoir #creativewriting.

Words To Live By Number 137

Self portrait by Suzanne Valadon, from an exhibit at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya Barcelona. Love her work and her story.

Love this piece. Deceptive simplicity.

Post a quote - include an attribution. Post a piece of art - credit the creator. Seems obvious, courteous, ethical. To me, anyway.

Day 9 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge #Books

Starting on mine later this week. Not too many, as each one is handmade and original.

Day 9. Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge #Books

Poems remind us of our humanity because, sometimes, the lines break. Just like humans do. And what comfort to know you can break and still be understood.

From my travel journal, created from found papers while in Spain and Portugal.