with unread piles of fashion mags stacked everywhere in my studio I started organizing by tearing them up systemically. First I remove the subscription cards that fall out or must be torn out of their perforation. Then I tear out ALL the perfume ads-these are the evil page and a 16th with a gummed flap sprayed with the foul combo of civet and bergamot. They are thicker pages than the magazine and are usually the first you come across when ‘thumbing’ thru the mag. They go straight into the garbage!

Next I look for the skinniest most immaciated models and cut them out for zetti collage.

Then if I need an assorted body part I go thru it again and grab those and if I see any big EYES or MOUTHS~ those get cut out too. Last but not least: Any time the text is downright obscene and is larger than a 32 pt font it gets cut out for the scrap bin for letters and verse.

Random quote author unknown: “Great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget”..background K&Co card stock design enhanced by watercolor pencil. The underfed models from W, Vogue, Elle, and Marie Claire. all images hand colored with pen and acrylics. glitter applied to random spots where glue did not dry correctly. piece then altered in collage creator to add painted effect. completed in two stages. art work took about 6 hours.

work in progress…original here;—>after scanning and photoshop, added atlantic city boardwalk and removed backround and some text which says i’m bored etc…this is a mosaic of a photo-all but the far right side of her face has been replaced with paper that was treated with ranger distress ink and pencil. magazine paper always scans with funky lines on it. this is a work in progress.

This is the fourth Lady-wing collage. She ended up looking like Gina Gershon but she is based on an image from a 1954 Good Housekeeping. I use vellum to trace the original dress and create  a template. The template is placed on designer card stock until the dress looks ‘right’ to me. I cut out the dress and distressed the edges with tea dye Ranger ink. The belt (or any accessory) is created the same way.

The original image is scanned and reprinted on 32 lb linen and then hand colored with pencil and pastel to create a painted look. Sometimes an arm or head will be replaced by other arms/heads (from other images) and pasted on to the body. The dress is pasted over this and sometimes more embellishment occurs with either pastel, ink or adhesive gems, or charms on the work.

When the paper doll is dressed she is placed on a complimentary background. Then the work is scanned and cropped. Sometimes text is added. This particular collage has text that translated reads: “Where is Julie? I think I found the diamond ring she lost in the pool.”