This is my sister, Alison’s Blog and in this post she talks about our day of collage making. You can see my very first Collage on here, it’s the one with the bear and fox on stargazing hill. We had a great time making them and I can’t wait to do it again, I’ve got my sketch all lined up!! enjoy reading X

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Yesterday I spent the whole day crafting! My sister and I spent the day making some collages since I mentioned in my last post that I felt the urge to go back to ‘handmade art’. I was up bright and early transferring my room into a lovely little workshop environment ready to create some Mark Hearld inspired prints. My sister had never experimented with the technique of collage before therefore she was hesitant as to where to begin. Unlike me my sister is a writer rather than an artist. I am the sister who likes to draw and she is the sister who likes to write.

It didn’t take her long to find some inspiration and begin to cut, stick and paint. I on the other hand knew what I wanted to do, I intended to create a ‘nature’ themed print inspired by Mark Hearld’s use of collage. The reason for…

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