Embroidered Collage

Sharon Wisely used autumn colors and metal to great effect in her pages.  My favorite page actually faces this one, but it is so 3-d that I couldn't scan it, so I'm showing off my second favorite.  For all that I like layers and complexity I am fascinated by art that makes "simple" work as a concept.  There's not a lot to this page, but it is beautiful to me.  Her blog is paper thoughts and she also runs a store.

I had seen Ruth Rae's use of gauzy fabrics to trap collage elements in some of the other calendars and was thrilled she continued the technique in mine.  She worked four pages similar to that shown above, almost a mini series in my calendar and in two more pages she covered the entire page with a trapped gauze collage.  The half-hidden elements are intriguing and an idea I might like to explore sometime.  She blogs at my creative soul and recently posted an entry on her newly returned calendar, which is also HUGE, and took the time to photograph everyone's spreads!

Marci Glenn documented a trip to San Francisco, where she goes twice a year.  One spread was a descriptive journal entry, describing places noted in other parts of her spreads.  It was a neat glimpse of a place that I haven't been.  She keeps a picture trail of her mixed media artwork.

Since Dawn Supina was always the person mailing to me, I've seen all her pages throughout the year.  She piles on the various elements when she collages, creating a distinctive mix of commercial items and ephemera, often with items or fringe sticking out of the rectangles.  Dawn blogs at art of humungous proportions.