Flower Flow Another taster session completed ; this time a floral collage project with Laly Mille. My art room has never been filled with so much collage fodder. I had myself boxed into a tiny corner surrounded by piles and piles of STUFF! I was pulling out doilies, cheesecloth, handmade paper, old ephemera, scrapbook paper, gel prints, magazine fodder, and old greeting cards. Then the supplies: gesso, acrylic paints, gel medium, matte medium, watercolors, water solvable graphite and Stabilo All pencils, all sorts of brushes, and a silicone spatula .  Making botanical bits was great fun. Painted old ephemera (music, book pages, letters) with gesso and then used water-solvable graphite to sketch botanicals with non-dominant hand. Adding water and smudging with my finger created an interesting effect. The graphite was softer; Stabilo-all was VERY stark, dark black. Loved how using non-dominant hand led to funky, wonky, imperfect drawings.  Very organic and great way to av...