Dark humoured....Me???

Ok, some days you just have to let the darkness out to play

*encouraged mightily by  Dream in Darkness and

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers

mwahahaaa.....

It all started quite innocently....

I have these blank ink pads and thought I'd try making my own

random colour pads...

 which are now resting on a shelf...

 but then I had all these ink bottles out ...

 to make smooshy mess with...

 and then the gesso had to play too.

 Soon the stamps wanted to join in...

 which lead to random collage papers spread all over.

 Naughty collage papers...

 more gesso, more collaged stamped paper...

and Dark Art was created mwahahahaha....

I had meant to play along with the Sisterhood last month....

but forgot to finish and post doh.*the traumas of summer break*

These are the pieces I was working on for their 

"Something Old, Something New" challenge.

Guess we'll have to save them for another day :)

Playing along at ;

Dream in Darkness # September (birthday optional)

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers # J is for Jumble (aka collage)

Enjoy :D XXX

Inspired to Show and Tell...

At Inspiration Avenue this week they are having a "Show and Tell" session, so I thought I would share a few pieces that I had blogged on my other blog (when I had 2 blogs) which was for "creepier" stuff. That blog was called "In the Corner of My Eye", and it allowed me to explore the darker side of my imagination. I mostly did collage, fancy cutting and working on A6 card pieces.

This first piece was inspired by the prompt word "Mirror"

I don't like mirrors...I always expect to see someone behind me...and they don't work right. When I stand in front of a mirror why can I see things reflected that are to the side of the thing and not just in line with it??? It just creeps me out :/ (See ...something even weirder about me you didn't know :D)

This second piece was inspired by the prompt "Timeless Elegance"

The background is a photo I took while walking, and the elegant ladies and the clock face were printed on vellum before being cut out and glued. Loved that effect, I think this was actually the first collage of this style that I ever made.

..and this is probably one of the most "not sure how to take this" ones I ever made. The background image is a photo I took of a plastic statue in a theme park, and it looked like a very pious but very creepy monk. I cut out an image of a beautiful angel and over-laid it. I think I was trying to show the different ways people interpret religious devotion, and that there can be a dark as well as a good side to any intense belief.

I have to say I have really enjoyed revisiting these old friends...and all the others I haven't posted here :D

Enjoy...or maybe not mwahahahahaha........:D XXX