I think it’s part of my art healing therapy that Im into mixed media collage… It allows me to jump right in…full force…get messy…get gluey…get glittered….and get creatin’!. A pre-requisite to begin this collage is green paint…. no…not on the canvas….not on your clothes.. but in your HAIR!!!…yes..when I went to grab the green paint and squirted it on my paper plate..uh humm….i mean..artist palette….It went “POOF” up in the air and into my hair…and my blonde hair went to a sage green….in a streaky sorta way…..
Well…I could have washed it out immediately…but I laughed and thought…no…go with the flow and thus I painted, glued, glittered and collaged with green hair….
So the word that I wanted to feature this week was LOVE….and then I woke up in the middle of the night last night thinking…OMG – That was the theme of my last hop project!…Oh well…must be something important to me if I’m still creating with LOVE…..
I wanted to use this years pictures of my girls….I actually have four kids – two of my own – Alex and Mariah and two step-daughters – Elise and Julia. I’m pretty confident that Alex didnt want to be included in this collage…he hates his picture taken …so…sorry Al…
But, my thought process as I was designing was “reflect” and “love”…I was reflecting on all the happy times we’ve had this year as a family. We’ve had some really steep challenges, that I’ll keep personal, but in retrospect, we’ve been able to work thru those as family and as individuals and to grow in our own relationships together. I LOVE that!
What I LOVE about Elise…..
and oh can she make me laugh…she has wit…and loves to be dramatic…center stage…funny…and not afraid to get dirty…yet she is amazingly girly girl and LOVEs photoshoots. So that’s what we did….we spent some stepmom/stepdaughter girl time in Florida…she dressed all up and we pretended that she was on a photo shoot…Jujie is also very caring…but isn’t afraid to tell ya what she’s thinking….I LOVE that about her….
So when you put it all together….you get a big picture of LOVE….