JO REIMER: Two Girls and a Ball

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Two Girls and a Ball

The two little girl images are from the first pattern I ever used to make something... a purple cotton dress for my favorite doll which I still have. I also made a purple sundress for myself... when I was 9 years old.

Two Girls and a Ball

5" x 5"

Collage on gallery wrap canvas

3 comments:

Anonymous5:34 PM PDT
Well, thats pretty cool. Talk about personal content!
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Jo Reimer5:50 PM PDT
That was a fun one to do, one of those which just fell together without much effort. Serendipity. I was taught long ago to prepare for serendipity, and I think that’s what I do with my prepared papers and compost.
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Dreamcicle Journeys8:10 AM PDT
Your collages sing with color and joy. I enjoyed the ones your grand children made. What a great way to get them interested in art. Paula
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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.