My first entry for Inspire Me Thursday

The theme for Inspire me Thursday this week is Birds. Here is my page.
IMT website: http://www.inspiremethursday.com/category/create/

Renewal, reconstructed, and refound

I am going to try to revive this blog so I will have a place to post some items. This is a collage I made for a swap-bot swap.

Self Portrait, a handcarved stamp. This is a page from my 8 x 10 altered book journal.  

Live Life! Pages from the Reconstuction Era journal

Will you be my friend? From the Reconstuctions Era journal 

In the Reconstruction Era workshop we were to work really quickly. Juliana timed us and kept us moving. This was a window/door page.  

Mandala pages from Reconstruction Era workshop 

Your Dreams, pages from the Reconsturction Era journal 

A page from the journal that I created in Juliana Cole's Reconstruction Era Workshop last July 

I Hate to Sew, a collage made with actual sewing machine parts. It won honorable mention in our local Faces of Women show.  

heritage collage 

Family history collage 

From poem to painting

The mind journey from the quotation to the painting?
Well, I went from "she put it on like a costume" to thinking "she put it on like a mask". From there I just started painting masked faces.

Here is the excerpt:

My mother was not impressed with her beauty,
Every year she put it on like a costume,

Sitting on a stool in front of a mirror.....

From: Christmas Eve My Mother Dressing by Toi Derricotte

Last Saturday in my painting class we did an exercise where we painted from a quotation. This is mine. 

New painting