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Heart Wide Open :: Part 2

Yesterpost I showed you the first of three chapters of my book. So without any further fussing, here’s the next one.

~ Part 1
~ Part 2
~ Part 3

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Posted on Thursday, December 24th, 2015 12:22 pmTuesday, January 5th, 2016 10:12 pm by MixyPosted in mixed media art, self-portraitTagged altered book, collage, flip through, heart wide open, mixed media.

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Dying dictionary pages. Here we go! Layers of paper, water, ink. Splashes and mess making to begin the week. (More about this huge book in my stories) 💕 #turquoiseandpink #dyedpaper #mixedmediaart #dyingwithink #recycledpapers #messyart

I tumbled down a rabbit hole within a rabbit hole today. . Five years ago I made this gigantic drawing, it measures something like 2 x 7 metres (that’s 6 x 23 feet ish). ABSURDLY big, and part of a crazy oversized project based around an animation and sound collage I made. The drawing was from the transcript of the video (which I tracked down today on my old laptop - finding all these again was part of the rabbit hole adventure) I’ll post it up on YouTube later, there’s a short clip on my channel but the whole thing is much bigger. Yes, crazy big. Of course. . The reason I revisited this is for the IG challenge: {day 17 :: Largest Painting #21daysinmyartworld } . This drawing was on a HUGE roll of paper which had a canvas-ish quality and was lovely to draw on, although being so big I had to work on the floor mostly. . The only photos I have of it ‘all at once’ is these early process pics (even in these it’s chopped it in half!!) the others are all close ups cos the detail just didn’t show from any distance. . . It’s a beast of a thing, maybe one day I’ll have a huge space to hang it up, meanwhile it’s rolled up in the corner of my studio 🤪 #nosenseofscale #largestartwork #drawingonwallpaper #textart #worddrawings

Oh my days! Today’s prompt in #21daysinmyartworld has got my head spinning!! ‘Smallest Painting’ has set off a cascade of thoughts and rememberings!! I’m off to play in my studio for a couple of hours, to magic together some more things like this cow I’ve just been reminded how happy I am when I’m making tiny collages!! ————————————— (More about this in my stories if you’re intrigued 😁) #saturdaystudiotime #dyedpaper #tinycollage #makingtime #squee

I love to work teeny-tiny scale, really focus on the littlest splashes of color and details. . . So today’s prompt in #21daysinmyartworld :: Smallest Painting — immediately brought this series to mind. 😊 I made these itsy-bitsy collages from a larger abstract watercolor painting. The surface texture was lost in a bigger piece, but chopped into these little geometric sections they came to life. . . And, as I’m mashing up this challenge, this is another post that fits two prompts — Day 14 :: *SOLD!* cos all of these little gems are in my Etsy Store right now! ~>💛Link in Profile💛<~ #smallestpainting #smallart #littlecollage #allinthedetail #teenytinystyle #madebymixy

I've been taking the prompts from @taraleaver ‘s #21daysinmyartworld challenge out of order, as the mood of the moment takes me (so this is going to take me more than 21 days!) but I'm loving the challenge to explore how I make my art. Today I found two prompts that inspired me: 11: Turning Point -- the realisation that I can swim along in the current of my own thinking, taking these prompts as just that, prompts, not in a fixed order. 13: Process Insight -- My greatest joy in creating is in the process of layering. I have a stack of old books, yellowed pages and broken spines. Many with missing pages and dog-eared corners. This is where I love to doodle, as a warm up or in the in-between-time. I find it endlessly relaxing - nothing can possibly go wrong - so I can just play. The layers build up over time, paint washes and swirls, scribbles and things on top of the printed words combine to make a never-ending supply of collage papers in the process too. This is a quick snippet of one of the layers on one of the pages in one of the books... #collagefodder #alteredbook #layersonlayers #creativeprocess

Layers of big color on printed papers make me endlessly happy. It’s a never ending stream of combinations in paint and print and pattern. And color, of course. I’m in a watercolor & gouache mood lately and having fun playing with puddles of color like this. Recurring shapes like come up again and again, shapes from nature, tree branches and streams, cobwebs and spirals. All variations of these. #day12 #21daysinmyartworld #currentmotifs #myfamiliarpatterns #howidoodle #paintinginbooks #alteredbook #watercolorgouache

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