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Louann Brown's avatar

I draw. Almost every day. Sometimes I follow online prompts, other times I just draw what the little voice inside my head tells me to.

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Diandra Mae's avatar

Oh, this was a good post, Debbie. When I started collaging in earnest years ago, I discovered ephemera (old prints: stamps, papers, etc) would not be wise to use in published works because of the copyright issues. Even scrapbooking papers were to be avoided, because they are licensed pieces of imagery. That's one reason I began creating my own painted papers.

I love that you are exploring collage, though. You are right that it frees you up into exploration, and texts of all kinds are a fabulous element. I guess they way around it would be to write things yourself, but I'm not sure it's the same. I know I love using pages out of an old dictionary when I work because the pages I choose to incorporate hold a meaning for me, and there is a kind of magic in that.

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