SoulCollage - first card!

Two posts in one day...hmmmm...I guess I'm trying to make up for some lost time :> Anyhow, I did manage to finish the card below this afternoon, my very first SoulCollage card - yay!


my little family
COMMUNITY

"I Am One Who is
the center of my universe
a bright, enduring light to those who need me
a wife, a mother,
a timewatcher, a stargazer"
(i may add/change this text later)

I have to say that it was really difficult to get into collage mode. It's a whole different process as opposed to drawing & painting my own images. I tend to 'freeze' up with the collage technique in general - not sure why but I always seem to have great resistance. However, once I clear my mind and just go with the flow, it well, flows.

Details about this card: the triangle you see formed represents me (taurus), my daughter (pisces), and my hubby (perseus). Why Perseus? Well, his star sign wasn't on the image so I chose Perseus to represent him. Remember in Greek mythology, Perseus was the hero who rescued Andromeda from the sea monster? Although my hubby isn't quite that kind of hero, however, he has been known to perform some heroic deeds :>

Okay, that's it for today. Excited to be doing this with Carla and others in this discovery circle. Come join us - what's holding YOU back?!

Inspire Me Thursday - Limited Palette

Under the wire for this one! Busy week and renovations are in full swing for my new space so things are quite a mess here, so hard finding everything I need for a project and then trying to keep it all organized when putting it back! To stay motivated, I've been sticking with simple pencil sketching and the computer [read: no mess] :)

About this piece & the limited palette I chose: photos are all my own. I was going for a mock view looking out our front window [blinds] at our plum tree, which is beautifully full with fruit in luscious shades of golden yellow, apricot and peachy-pink. For the marigold flower photo, I imagined it as a postcard that was fluttering in the fall winds, slipping in through the open blinds. The leaves were created from a real maple leaf that I had pressed earlier this summer and scanned in/manipulated.

digital collage, photoshop



fall is a fragile beauty

dressed in her colorful cloak fall sways
to a melancholy tune
as she pirouettes on nature's dancefloor
a bittersweet feeling
washes over her
for she knows winter's cold icy blue embrace
will soon beckon her
the crimson and orange embers burning inside
will slowly smoulder
to ashen grey
as she succumbs to a crystalized kiss
that brings with it
a one year slumber.

-- laura taylor mark © 2007