Two more pieces done for Revel In The Moment. These are great warm ups for the painting I'm currently working on, and nothing at all like it. I do a couple of these collaged pages, then a little of the painting, a couple more of these, then a little more of that. Two quick, followed by one slow and smooth. Great way to work. Quick quick slow. Very rhythmic. Just like dancing.
These are freely worked using templates by Kelly Kilmer as a starting point. In the end, they will have been added to and subtracted from, but this is how I begin, with a raw collage.
I hadn't thought about Chinese New Year, but I'm sure it was there, ready to come forward when I began this. I just recently learned that I'm a Dragon, after thinking all these years that I was born in the year of the Snake. A Chinese expert told me that it isn't the dates of the western calendar that determine the year, it's the beginning to the end of the Chinese New Year in the year one was born. Both New Years are usually about a month apart, so Chinese horiscope calendars go with the western year because it's so easy. But for those of us born on one side or the other of the actual starting date, it makes a difference. That makes sense. I never could identify with the Snake Year description, but the Dragon is spot on.
I always love seeing how you interpret the templates!! Luscious!
Posted by: kelly | January 24, 2012 at 09:37 PM
Very vibrant pages. And, parenthetically, I've always loved dragons.
Posted by: joanne thieme huffman | January 25, 2012 at 02:20 AM
great compositions. So you are a dragon lady? Now for a tattoo.
Posted by: Monica Smith | January 25, 2012 at 07:06 AM