Learning about Coneflowers
It’s coneflower season! My favorite flowers are in bloom. I like the “badminton birdie” shape of the flowers and the loose tangled look of the foliage. As I’ve used coneflowers…
Make Something
This week I decided to use scraps from my collage projects to make postcard-sized pieces for a mail art swap. For this "black, white, and red" challenge, I combined monotypes,…
Spring Garden #7
After listening to my art friends on Zoom talk about drawing and using other papers for printing, I did something a little different this week. I made some prints of…
Spring Garden #6
This week I made prints from fresh leaves and spring colors. Combining new prints with ones from past sessions reflects the growth in the garden and gives continuity to this…
Spring Garden #5
Spring Garden #5 12 x 12 inches Monotype collage on paper ©2020 Lucinda Howe The fifth piece in my spring garden series combines vivid pinks with spring greens. As the…
Spring Garden #4
After the cool greens in the composition last week, I wanted warmth in the green foliage and ochre stones in my piece this week.
Spring Garden #3
I didn’t know what to do with the cool green color palette I posted two weeks ago. It seemed a bit sad. Or maybe it was that I was a…
Spring Garden #2
In last week's post, I gathered several groups of printed papers and asked you which one to do next. As there wasn't a consensus in the comments, I chose the…
Pick a Palette
Spring continues to burst into bloom in South Carolina. This week, I’ve made a few leaf prints in warm greens and yellows to add to my collection of collage fodder.…
Spring Garden #1
As the weather warms, the spring garden is bursting with pink, yellow, and chartreuse.