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Quilting My Past, Recycling My Dreams Tulip Collage 2, paper collage on black canvas, by Conni Schaftenaar

Over many years, I have put my art on greeting cards and annual calendars, originally done as gifts to clients of my marketing business. I took sample prints and left over printed materials from some of these items and cut petal shapes, combined them into tulips, made stems and leaves, and mounted everything on a black canvas on which I created a "quilted" background". The tulips, stems, and leaves all have "quilting" stitches on them, and look like an appliqué on the top of a black quilt. It was fun to make, and I have already made another companion piece to it in other colors! Hope you enjoy it. I used matte medium for the mounting of all the pieces, and then coated the whole piece with liquid matte medium. All of the printed pieces are from my original art - some watercolor paintings, some alcohol ink paintings, some digital art created from scans of my hand art, using...

Thank you for visiting my FAA/Pixels gallery! Please note that the FAA watermark you'll see on images does NOT print on anything. My name is Conni Schaftenaar. I have had a life-long love of colorful art but always imagined that I wasn't talented enough to be someone who actually produced art that others liked. I began to learn some techniques from a watercolor instructor back in 2013, and I've been continuing the learning process ever since. I have had much joy in the comments and communications on FAA with other artists about my art, finding out that OTHER PEOPLE actually like my art! It's been a huge confidence booster to me to get that positive feedback, and I really appreciate it. I primarily paint in watercolor on various...