{"id":6668,"date":"2020-10-23T11:33:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T18:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/?p=6668"},"modified":"2025-05-23T14:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T21:43:08","slug":"another-six-little-abstract-paper-collages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/another-six-little-abstract-paper-collages","title":{"rendered":"Another Six Little Abstract Paper Collages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today I\u2019m posting another set of six small abstract collages that I\u2019ve been creating lately. I\u2019m quite enjoying working on these, finally finding a use for all those scraps of tissue and painted paper. Some of these have as an element, scraps from photographs of the seed pods of a wild sweet pea that comes up in our garden every year. I\u2019d taken the photos into Photoshop and upped the contrast and created some interesting lines and textures. Now was my chance to use them. Others have scraps of sewing pattern tissue, just for the lines and colour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Small abstract collage, mixed media with tissue, pencil crayon, ink pen, various saved and painted papers, 5 x 5.5 inches, Helen Bushell<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The fun thing with creating these is the layering of colour, textures and lines, each piled on the other. I work from one composition to the other, loosely and intuitively. I enjoy taking my time, pondering, and often trying the same scrap in each composition, until I find the one where it fits perfectly. Once I have it all laid out as I want, I take quick photos to remind me of where everything went before I go back and slowly fasten each layer down with matte medium onto acid free mixed media paper. It\u2019s quite the process!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Small abstract collage, mixed media with tissue, pencil crayon, ink pen, various saved and painted papers, sweet pea seed photo copy paper, 5 x 5.5 inches, Helen Bushell<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Small abstract collage, mixed media with tissue, pencil crayon, ink pen, various saved and painted papers, 5 x 5.5 inches, Helen Bushell<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Each collage is quite small, only about 5.5 x 5.75 inches or approx 13×14 cm. I think they tend to have a cohesiveness and would look quite good in groups. I hope to have all of them posted eventually on our Etsy shop FoundMadeArt<\/a><\/strong> soon. They\u2019re sold unframed, priced at $60 each and we offer free shipping too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working on a new set now, so more to come! The next set looks to be quite different in composition so far. Experimenting again…. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Small abstract collage, mixed media with tissue, pencil crayon, ink pen, various saved and painted papers, sweet pea seed photo copy paper, 5 x 5.5 inches, Helen Bushell<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Small abstract collage, mixed media with tissue, pencil crayon, ink pen, various saved and painted papers, s 5 x 5.5 inches, Helen Bushell<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Small abstract collage, mixed media with tissue, pencil crayon, ink pen, various saved and painted papers, sweet pea seed photo copy paper, 5 x 5.5 inches, Helen Bushell<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I\u2019m posting another set of six small abstract collages that I\u2019ve been creating lately. I\u2019m quite enjoying working on these, finally finding a use for all those scraps of tissue and painted paper. Some of these have as an element, scraps from photographs of the seed pods of a wild sweet pea that comes Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1022,1089,1,1206],"tags":[1118,1213,1169,1154,1214,1216,1150],"class_list":["post-6668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collage","category-foundmadeart","category-musings","category-paper-collage","tag-abstract-paper-collage","tag-mixed-media-paper-collage","tag-paper-collage-by-helen-bushell","tag-paper-collage-with-found-paper","tag-small-abstract-collage","tag-small-abstract-paper-collage","tag-small-paper-collage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6668"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6965,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668\/revisions\/6965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}