I'd promised a finished pic of the collage I showed being made in stages in my January 3 post, Collage. It's about time I came through. I'm pleased with it.

Here are some details. I finally figured out how to take detail shots on our camera so I can get in nice and close and you can see the texture of the gel medium.

I got some great rusty texture, too, from some bits of copper I found on the garage floor.

...and just to show that I really did pay attention during Sharon Boggon's terrific Studio Journals class on Joggles.com, I've shown a bit of a journal I was playing with, along with a couple of canvases I painted. I actually used Setacolor fabric paint in Indigo, but I just love the transparent quality it worked. For what? I'll post when I figure that out, but I just know the colour worked.

A couple of inspiring blogs

I've done it again - whiled away time jumping here and there on blogs. I have some time this morning, so after this will head upstairs to do something useful with the ideas floating around in my head. As always, Sharron Boggon's Inaminuteago blog has me fired up. I don't think I can link directly to her September 1 post, but go take a look - thanks to her I've signed up for ColourLovers. Colour combinations are something that have always intimidated me. I've never thought I really have "it". The only thing to do, then, is to keep at it to improve.
Color by COLOURlovers">This one's great. I love the collage it came from.

I also took a look at Digital Gran; lots of lovely pics and ideas. I've saved it and will visit again to see what she's up to.