SHELTER IN PLACE PLAY DAY

Since we, and most of the world, are staying home in hope of flattening the curve of coronavirus cases, this blog will strive to offer suggestions and projects from some of our members. We will try to update the blog every two weeks, so be sure to check in for new ideas as well as information about when regular NORBAG workshops will resume. Remember to scroll down for previous projects sent by our members.

 Before "shelter in place" became the norm, and back when the advice was to keep 3’ distance (rather than the 6’ distance, now dictated), Lynne Gurnée and Dolores Guffey got together to play with an idea that was noted in the April newsletter at janedavies-collagejourneys.blogspot.com. They were intrigued with Jane’s idea of painting tissue paper to make collaged stones.  The instructional video for muted colors/stones is at  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJtycVMZTz4 . After watching the video, they noted that Jane used bleed-proof tissue paper from Dick Blick. Not having that, they just ventured forth with what was on hand and found that some tissue papers worked better than others (some were too thin). Nevertheless, they persevered and here are their creations. Lynne then went on to make a full page collage using just the tissue paper she had colored, no added papers were included. Here is what the papers looked like after painting. They used both tube and fluid acrylics.

Dolores' rocks

Dolores' landscape

Lynne's rocks

Lynne's landscape

Lynne's Japanese themed landscape

Lynne's "flutterbye"

These "rock" cards are by our member in Pennsylvania, Mary Elizabeth