BLUEBIRD LAND ASSEMBLAGE

February 14, 2024February 14, 2024 | JP Dawes Artist

I bought these wonderful antique tin ceiling tiles from someone on Facebook Marketplace. They were just too good to pass up. Most ceiling tiles you see are squares or circle patterns, these are a little rarer. I can think of a lot of assemblage compositions using these.

This first one is named Bluebird Land. If you can enlarge the photo of the finished piece you can see the antique music decoupaged at the top. My mother was a singer on WSOY radio when she was young and I have most of her music from that time period. It hasn’t fared well and is pretty ragged and crumbly. I don’t mind using it for projects like this since it gives it new life.

Oh Goody! Win Win!

January 12, 2018 | JP Dawes Artist

Is there something in the past that you really really liked but for whatever reason you didn’t buy it? Not buying this iron cage when we saw it in an eclectic shop in Old Town Spring, TX about 4 years ago was one of my regrets. At the time it was not in the budget.

As luck would have it, recently someone locally was selling one . I quickly responded that I wanted it. You see, I have boxes of tiny artist trading cards from the online group I ran for 6 years. This is a perfect display piece for a few of my own creations that are some of my favorites.

When going through my boxes I discovered some duplicates so they may be destined for sale. I found a few of my favorites that may be recreated in larger art quilts, too. Win Win!

See the oversized trading card? That one is from my ever non-conformist friend Jean Sredl.

A Tiny Little Art Start

June 18, 2015June 21, 2015 | JP Dawes Artist

A tiny start with some tiny art while I’m on intermission. Our Arts in the Cards theme for June was music/rhythm.

My mother sang on WDZ radio in Illinois as a young woman. I have stacks of her sheet music with much of it having damage. I used some for the background on these cards. With Inktense pencils I illustrated the way I see a single melodious note.

Let your Freak Flag Fly!

March 29, 2015 | JP Dawes Artist

April’s Arts in the Cards inspiration is Fly Away. With spring here, the garden centers are all flying those brightly colored plastic pennants that dance in the wind to draw attention to their new planting stock. Those, and bright clear spring colors were my inspiration for this month’s trading cards.

A4 Challenge Into the Woods

March 5, 2015 | JP Dawes Artist

I’m working on perfecting this method of construction for my work. These small A4 size challenges are perfect for sampling. This bi-monthly challenge was Into the Woods.