Amber Gibbs - Art Journals, Collage Art & Mixed Media Adventures

September Weddings, Birthdays, and Art

Oooh, I've been gone for a while - both from my art and from this blog. September was so busy for me. First my in-laws arrived and adjusting to having people in the house took a week or so. My daughter turned 1!! We had a family-only party for her.

Then one of my beautiful sisters got married. Lots of family was in town for that and I hosted several people (including my other beautiful sister). I was in the bridal party, and even the tho the bride did take it easy on me because I have a baby, I did have a lot of things to do to get ready for that.

Here's my lovely sister Beth on her wedding day:

I did finish up some journal pages at the beginning of September.

This was an experiment of layers. I kept drawing and adding to it - paint, ink, collage. Eventually it was just too much, so I ripped off a few of the collage elements. The result reminded me of a building, so I added the church overlay.

Here is a closeup so you can see the detail:

Jointed: Ambiguous Angels

Tricia Anders created a Flickr group called Jointed to highlight collaborative art pieces. And then she hosted a project where she created an drawing and asked artists to finish it.

Above is my piece. I had more of her sketch in the work, but as I kept reworking and adding to it, most of her work is obscured. Perhaps I am not the best person to do collaborative projects! The faces are her work.

This piece actually has about 10 layers. Something for future art historians to discover in x-rays. Hahaha.

Layers:

• Collaged Ephemera
• Red acrylic glaze over that
• Face with a tree thing, totally not working. Then about 2 years of "rest"
• black and white collage of buildings/angels and birds. The composition was really lovely and I should have left it alone
• then I added some color to it and ruined it
• I added Tricia's faces and body parts to it
• Then I outlined and added sketches with pen and ink
• Then I used a lot of black paint to unify it
• and then some more white paint to bring out the specific areas

The end.

Well, not really. I'm not sure I'm satisfied with this yet. Frankly I'm happy when I get some time to make art.

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