Adventures in Arting Podcast: Episode 127 "Failure Again"
Mixed Media Collage Process Video Start-to-Finish

Sorting My Pretty Paper Projects

My art practice involves five major branches:

  1. Making
  2. Cleaning and Organizing
  3. Research and Learning
  4. Planning and Shopping
  5. Practice and Processing

I'm currently mostly doing #2 today: cleaning and organizing. My current mission is sifting through all the pretty paper projects I've made recently and sorting them into three piles: sell, collage fodder, do more.

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SELL is pretty easy.

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If it looks great and I can imagine someone hanging it on their wall, it goes in the sell pile. 🙌  (This paper weaving is one of the tutorials from the Artful Holiday class, btw.)

COLLAGE FODDER is the stuff that isn't good enough to sell - either it didn't turn out well or it's simply not finished enough to be art that you hang on your wall.

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But it's also not a piece of paper with two dots of paint or ink on it. I'm exaggerating a bit. But I do tend to mop up a spill and then forget about that 90% blank piece of paper.  For me, collage fodder can be very decorative...

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...or kind of ugly. 

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It's simply mostly covered with paint or ink or whatever.

The collage fodder pile is the paper that will become the basis of the work I do for the next few months. ❤️

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DO MORE
is all of the stuff where I can still see the white of the paper over a large portion of it.

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Everybody is different. So for some people this piece of paper might be collage fodder. For me, it needs more! ➕➕➕

How do you sort your paper projects? I'd love to know!

Thanks for stopping by!

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