Ellen Lindner: Art & Creativity

No, not money.  More small collages in my “Notes for a Friend” series.  I’m now working on three new green collages, with accents of fuschia, etc.

After making the first three red ones, I thought maybe I could do a sort of assembly line process with these next three.  Wrong!  There’s absolutely no substitution for thoughtful consideration of each piece of fabric.

Here’s #4 well underway in the colors I originally planned.

I’m working with scraps only on these small pieces.  My green scraps share a container with the yellow ones and at one point one of these spilled onto the work table.  That gave the idea to add a little yellow.  Like this.  Just a little spark: 

 Then this one, #6, got quite a bit more.  And some blue, too!

After some initial frustration, (when I was trying to force a production line approach,) I’m now enjoying these quite a bit.

Ellen Lindner
P.S.  See December 18, 2012 and forward to see the first three red notes.