BEACH COTTAGES

"...splashed in sun mist..."

Scanned all the BEACH POETRY art including Beach Cottages. Each collage inspired by poem written by friend at the beach. Next get the poems into PDF file. Creating Apple book just ahead.

art c. M.Malwitz

poetry c. C.S.L.

8 PIECES OF PAPER

FROM MY WINDOW...

SKY, SEA & SAND

c. marge malwitz

I did the COASTAL SERIES several years ago. Lately no studio time, so it's fun to share these. This one took just 8 pieces of torn & cut paper. Just plain fun!

Anyone inspired to play with collage after following my blog? Let me know if you've been challenged.

WINDY BEACH

WINDSOCK

WILD!

from

BEACH

POETRY

fabric

threads

metallic

stitching

shell

button

quilted

c. marge malwitz

BACK TO THE BAGS

Thinking there's a bit much yellow on this page!

Worked in the studio yesterday morning.

Pulled out the gessoed paper bags I was playing with a few weeks ago.

Working on the 3rd collage/right side on the ledge. No plan besides play with the leftover scraps, color and design ideas from the Sunny California collages.

I'M TRUSTING THE PROCESS.

LOOKING FOR YOU

Created with fabric scraps from trimming earlier collages.

c. m.malwitz

from the series

COASTAL COLLAGES

Gray Day

Beach house high on piers. Measure of retreat & safety from stormy sea.

GRAY DAY

painted fabrics

acrylics

pastels

sequins

stitching

quilted

from BEACH POETRY

Poetry by friend processing hard time

& my art inspired by those poems.

Gray Day c. Marge Malwitz

SAILING THE HORIZON

along the coast

2 sailboats

handpainted

fabrics & papers

metallic thread

stitching

from the series

Beach Poetry

c. m.malwitz

TRANSPARENT SEA HOUSE

collaging...fabrics, glossy pics, acrylics, stitching, rubber stamp, metallic thread, on Kolo paper...from coastal collages

BEYOND THE DUNES...THE SEA

creating coastal:

glossy pics

acrylics

pastels

canvas

paper

i love

collage

SNOWY ILLUSTRATIONS

Picking up unfinished project of illustrating & writing a children's picture book about snow.

Materials? Techniques? Been looking over snowy illustrations I created a few years ago. Here's one with fabric stitched on bristol.

Creative direction? Materials on the worktable & experiment!

"Sit with what you have & dream with it in a new way."

Shaun McNiff in TRUST THE PROCESS

PULLING OUT SNOW

Art friends encouraging me to get on with illustrating children's books. I've had one in the drawer for a couple years now. Story about snow.

Pulled out story boarding, cat photos/drawings, stitched fabrics, notes, & story text.

It's all thought through - 'just' need to do it! Lots of work. Do I go for it or not?

A BRIGHT ORANGE BUTTON?

Accordion fold book, inspired by sunny California, pretty much complete. Still needs a couple tweeks, like a sun on page 5 - a bright orange button?

STORY WRITES ITSELF

Continued working on the book inspired by trip to California.

Have been going back and forth on how many pages - 8 - 12 - 10 & today back to 8. Just could not get the last two pages to work story-wise. Whatever I came up with, seemed to be extraneous to the story that has been writing it self. Almost finished!

Still don't have a title. Think I'll ask my son for a suggestion, he's the Cali biker.

SUNNY CALI BOOK PROGRESS

Making progress on accordion book inspired by trip to sunny California.

Pg 1 - added trees, sun, sky, hill, bike, house

Pg 5 - added houses, palm tree

Pg 6 - added house

Pg 7 - added house

Pg 8 - added houses, bike, sun

Pg 9 - added sun

Moving along! Would love to finish this by Wednesday. Never can tell when more inspiration is heading my way. But wait...I have earlier Cali inspired work to finish up !

Work in progress top to bottom:

• full 10 pages

• closeup pages 1-4

• closeup pages 5-8

COLOR BY JOAN CODERRE

Con't from previous post.

Later Friday afternoon Marth & I drove up to Canton, CT & met up w/ Kathy, Marth's sister, who is a wonderful artist & art teacher extraordinaire!

Destination - Pia Sjolin Design to see the opening of Paintings by Joan Coderre. Joan is well known for her exuberant views of city life. Her bright gouache and watercolor paintings are inspired by her childhood in Hartford.

The 3 of us are friends with Joan on Facebook though none of us have a clue how that came about, which was kind of funny. No matter! We enjoyed meeting Joan & loved her colorful street scenes.

Photos-from top down:

• Marth & Kathy @ Pia's.

• Marth and Joan looking at "El Capitan II Restaurant" the painting Joan used to publicize the exhibit.

• I love her colorful detailed traffic scenes. What a great bus and cars in the bottom piece.

Great up-liftng work, Joan! You are a colorist!

NEXT PORT - WINDOWS CAFE

Yesterday Marth & I drove over to Shalom Cafe in Bloomfield, CT for one last time. Time to take down PORTS OF COLOR, art by Martha Campbell, Pat Butler and myself & load it into the Jeep.

While packing up we reminised about the great opening evening. People not just dropping by & leaving but hanging out for the whole evening! Art, food, wine, live music, old friends, new friends and lively conversation all added up to a great party! Take a look...

http://margemalwitz.blogspot.com/2010/03/opening-all-about-people.html

Next showing this fall - Windows Cafe, Bethel, CT

Yesterday was a busy day-more tomorrow...

BIKING IN CALIFORNIA

Continued book inspired by trip to Cali. Today process showed me:

• Story is gelling-biking from neighborhood over hills.

• Figured out 1st & last pages-ties story together.

• 12 pages too long-8 better.

ANOTHER BICYCLE

Making progress on the accordion book inspired by my trip to California.

Designing 2 more sunny days.

More hills, houses & yes another bicycle!

More tomorrow.

STAMPING BIKES

Continued the accordion fold book inspired by my trip to sunny California.

Added a row of houses on 1st collage page, houses around the green belt on the 2nd, and a rubber stamped bike coming down the hill to a house on the 3rd.

How to rubber stamp:

I use black Fabric Screen Printing Ink by Speedball. With plastic spoon, spread a dab of ink into a 'pad' made with 2 pieces of white felt. Work ink into the pad.

Press stamp into inked pad. Stamp on scrap paper for practice and then on painted paper. When image is dry, heat set according to product instructions.