The Recipe Evolves | Paper Assemblage. Leftovers. & Staying Open

artful discovery

How often are we inspired to return to our making table to what has been left behind?

I get it. Sometimes it might just be a mess. But organize the left over papers. Re-group the ephemera. Place back to your file the mixed media pieces. Get a little organized. The extra paper pieces. The off cuts. The previously little layered bits. 

All of it holds a brand new something to be discovered.

This has been what I have found myself exploring lately. At a fresh new and deeper level. I call it paper assemblage. It's a loose and open approach to layering papers, bringing in textures, and pulling in collected elements into a composition that is artful and oh so satisfying.

And even though this is all based on a RECIPE, it's not fixed at all. This is not overly defined formulas. But simply a way of making that invites our curiosity right back in. This is what it is all about!

 

If you have been following along, in the first video of this little series I shared a recipe for beginning these collages. You can find that video HERE. And the 'recipe card' HERE. 

What one loves most about this little recipe idea is that it is quite simple. 

Yet, the outcome never feels the same twice.

And that is such a beautiful aspect of this process.

As you will see in this next video, the process is on repeat but with completely new results:

A different paper collection.

A softer palette.

Torn edges and straight ones.

Sentiments always, for they tell the story.

More layers.

Or less.

Each time we make a little shift in the sequence we are bringing a little bit more of us to the making. 

It's more about discovering than it is duplication. But the volume! Oh cheers for the volume of making we can be apart of.

We don't need more paper. Or more instruction. Or a perfect theme to show us the way. We already know the way. What I say we often truly need is time. Time to step away from the noise. Time to sit with our beautiful collections. Time to see what we come up with next. Time to go slow and be a little quiet with the making with our hands.

There is something restorative about the slow making. 

This world is always going to be noisy. And just might even become more so. It's pushing hustle, productivity, and speed. 

Let's remind ourselves we do not have to follow. With the simplicity of the direction of a little paper making recipe, we can be free to come to our making space, and bring some beauty to our world with the papers and art pages and ephemera we already love. Let's not hoard. Let's make. Let's just make something beautiful.

I hope you will join me and come make with me in this Paper Assemblage tutorial, which isn't really a tutorial. It's inspiration. It's simply inspiration to make and enjoy the process.

Watch Video 2 HERE:

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