JO REIMER

Wednesday, September 03, 2008

LITTLE JO

7.5 x 7.5

I took a box of collage compost with me to use while on vacation at the beach, not realizing how appealing making a simple collage would be to my grandchildren. I took only enough supports for my own work but of course I soon realized that it was more important that I share with these budding artists.

The first girl to have a go was my 8 year old granddaughter who created a masterpiece right off the bat. Granted I kept control of the glue spreader (I had YES! paste with me and a broad plastic palette knife) so the work was neater than she normally produces but it was amazing. See for yourself...

Sarah's House

6.5 x 5

Soon my other granddaughter joined

the fun and made this

And by week's end we had a gallery lining two windowsills..

Charlie's Chasing the Green Flash.

Jill's Tree

And the rest are mine.

2 comments:

Catharina Maria12:31 PM PDT
I love your blog and beautiful journal pages !
Rini the Netherlands
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Elizabeth St. Hilaire Nelson3:02 PM PDT
What a great name "Collage Compost" and what beautiful papers! I painted paper myself today. Did I tell you that I am hooked on fluid acrylics? How's things?
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Art Tip: brush cleaning

As I work with acrylic medium for glue or with acrylic paints I stand my brushes in a bucket of water on my work table and give them a soap and water cleanup every day or so. But eventually my brushes get gunky and sometimes I forget to clean them. That's when I clean them with Murphy's Oil Soap. I keep an inch of MOS mixed 1:1 with water in a tall plastic tub (Feta from Costco) and put caked brushes in that solution overnight. By the next day the soap has softened the brush and with a bit of elbow grease I can get the brushes back to useable. This also works for brushes used with oil paint. I gave up using oils but wanted to save those good brushes and Murphy's Oil Soap came to the rescue. Get it at the grocery store.