##### Hello !

##### I just finished my Tuesday's work and am waiting on my grocery order to come. After that, I will feed myself and maybe load the dishwasher and ...decide if I need a short nap.  LOL !!! Whether I do or don't, at some point I will move to my art table to play a while.  My front porch still needs some work.  I did get my few new flowers potted, so they are happy, but there are some other things that need moving around out there for the summer.  I'm not sure if I will tackle that this evening or not, but time will tell that story, as it always does.

##### A couple of nights ago I made this Calm piece of collage art. All of the papers were painted, stenciled and/or pressed by me, except for the piece of a sticky note in the bottom left corner.  It was a Thank You message from another artist for buying a piece of their work. It was just laying on the art table and seemed to fit in so....there it went. 

##### Calm....not by paper designs, but by colors.

![calm.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/jacey.boldart/23tmHRbrWz5BhoryihT4Z7svM3bMtReXj94mAUFJBftK3c983FSeD51VvPr6ew9piPdbD.jpg)

##### NOT Calm ! I made this messy piece to test how a paper reacted to being painted and glued. The canvas was a cheapo from Dollar General that I bought to test the size for something else I wanted to do.  I wanted to see if the other design would fit in that space before I bought a better canvas to put it on.  It worked, but then this canvas was left and so I decided to use it for the paper test.  Since I'm an old girl, I get a soft back book from Medicare every year. The other week when my work computer was down, but I needed to stay in the general vicinity of it, I pulled boxes and bags of paper things over where I could go through them, throw away and organize.... and when I got to the book from 2023, I decided to pull the pages out to use for collage papers.  I thought the paper felt right for painting. 

##### At lunch that day, I quickly swished some blue and hot pink paint across it and left it there to dry so I could test the gluing part that evening. When it came time, I tore it to pieces and haphazardly glued some pieces on. Then I added some yellow paper I had made before that had some blue lines on it to balance it out. THEN.... I put a few bits of white paper that had black marks on it and scattered some black ink around.

##### It made me laugh, but for real, I see stuff like this for sale on the net all the time.  I don't know if anybody buys it, but other artists put it up for sale all the same. It was fun to make, but what a funny mess! Turns out, the paper will work fine for painting and gluing! Yay!

![not calm.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/jacey.boldart/23uFS1CfnuGbsFJYfDXDvY89Gdku4NZtJXCshd1PTAotVjMafvV9eP7auH5FSkQ9EasE5.jpg)
##### Now that you're traumatized good and proper, here is another piece I made last week.  It wasn't supposed to be this way, but this is the way it ended up.  There are parts of it I really do like and other parts not so much.  It still has a fun vibe to it overall I think.


![20250603_172952.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/jacey.boldart/23tva5RDz3t6XZwpMB4mVw5HVeMssvsyoJJ8VPwG44qrdsgBbLF5ycx4dw67UypVdA1eT.jpg)

##### ....and last, another piece with a different look.  The background paper is one I painted and stenciled on the gel press. I loved the way it came out.  The center piece is part of a page that was in a book, maybe about Lewis and Clark. I then cut the black silhouette from the black area of a shiny book page. To top it off, I added a scant bit of turquoise markings in two places.  You know this is not my normal style, but I am having fun now and then, trying out new ways of art play.
![20250530_095716.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/jacey.boldart/23vsQXxG9pwx4kgZGHJYH5cuQPuoLh39QtVVwBP6i6kD3AjaAJYpyXpcjSa8Ga3PC7zbU.jpg)

##### Well.... time for me to go. I see my groceries have been delivered and to the back porch again.  I love delivery people, but I don't know why they don't look at the notes on the orders when they drop them off. Nothing is ever suppose to be left in the middle of the back deck.

##### Hope you are all having a good week.

##### Love ya!
##### Jacey