Craft:  Texture and Collage

My sister-in-law, Kim, is an artist.  She recently taught a class in collage at a local store.  This is my collage from that class.  

It was such a fun afternoon!  Being small in number, we were able to talk and share as we couldn't have done if our group were larger.

Our first assignment was to choose a color for the board and add it atop the texture that Kim had applied to the board before we arrived.  I loved this pretty aqua color so I chose that, covering the board with it and then painting black at the edges and in toward the middle to add depth.  

I am a hesitant painter.  Not bold!  My black coat is light and not very dramatic.  It would have been better, I think, had I made it more emotional or outrageous, but still I was conveying the song of this sweet little bird so maybe we're fine with this light grey edge.  

The poem I cut from an old book is glued at the left under the bird's tail.  It's title is "A Lament".  The words on the music at the top are "blushed to say he kissed me".  The bird is a cut-out as are all the other icons, including the limb which was cut free hand from a piece of brown paper by Kim.  I painted the musical notes.

The title of the piece is Tweet.

Tweet now sits atop a ledge in my office at home.