Collage
I love the free form of collage and I became addicted to collecting vintage images after doing a history of photography class at Winthrop University. I sometimes use these vintage images in my collages.  But often I just use whatever is lying around my studio and is accessible, old letters, photographs I have taken, rubber stamps, wallpaper samples.  I enjoy using Photoshop to create the collages as well as paper. The collages are used in collaborative projects such as "fat books" or Artist trading card swaps. Fat books are collaborative books with twenty to fifty pages in each book, each one contributed by a different artist to fit in with the theme of the book.  They are works of art and I treasure my collection.


Collaborative Color Journals
Together with a group of like-minded artists in the USA (many of them on the West Coast) I've participated in a quarterly collaborative Color Journal project these past years.  It has stretched my creative abilities as I had to really start thinking differently when creating in one color palette.  It was harder than I imaged!  And because we had to create eight original pages one had to choose something that you were able to replicate, while at the same time work on the page with original materials.  My favorite part was creating the covers for the journals (above) and finding different ways to bind the pages contributed by the artists into a book for each participant to keep.  Creating with a group can keep you inspired, exploring and growing as an artist.