Where was I ?.....

...Oh yes!

I have had two weeks of cat sitting whilst my son visited the US(work, no shopping, boring) Life went back to what counts for normal on Friday and yesterday I sat down with my new book, on collage. 
See previous post.
There are 50 suggested exercises so no 1.  Five five minute collages.
I did sort out some papers before I started, it is amazing how quickly 5 minutes goes by.  Great exercise,
This is all five together.

One by one.

Still waiting for embossing powders but there are some great demonstrations from Creativation 2018 on Seth Apter's blogpost today.

We went to see The Post last week.   Good watch again at home film.  Early Man tomorrow.

Well.....

... I can see the floor but I find it impossible to be as ruthless as I would like.
However play has been resumed with work on another journal, sort of a bit Gothic this one....the first page.

I have a new book, The Collage Workbook by Randel Plowman.  I came across it on Carolyn Saxby's always beautiful blog .
She is planning to work though it along with her sister Evelyn Flint , they previously worked through one of my favourite books Surface Treatment Workshop  So I thought I would perhaps try and combine the two.
The first exercise is to make a collage in five minutes.  I'll have to try that again because this took me about 15minutes.I used bits leftover from my Book of Trees  

This is the first one I tried mixing collage with paint.

I have to wonder why nearly all my mixed media attempts turn out like these mountainous landscapes.  I think this one is waiting for the delivery of Seth Apter's Deep Sea Embossing Powder 
I don't think I mentioned I had these on per-order from the excellent That's Crafty. 
I have no affiliation , It's just I have found them to give excellent service and we know how much I like that.

On another tack if the CEO of Marks and Spencer would like to contact me I could probably solve a lot of his problems.