the wave / Monthly Makers: letters & words

My recent lack of blogging has meant that I haven’t even mentioned what the latest theme for Monthly Makers is! If you don’t know, Monthly Makers is a creative challenge me and eleven other bloggers arrange, where we release a theme for every month to inspire you to create! More info at the end of this post.

But the theme is “Letters & Words” and I just love this theme so much. I started making pixel sortings with words initially, but I didn’t really feel it, and after a day of making collages in school I just really wanted to make a collage.

I made it in a new way for me though, and used watercolours to paint paper that I used in the collage, which gave me a lot more control over colours than using pages from a magazine would!

And oh, I painted pages from books! That’s the “words” part.

I let the pages dry and then tore them apart to get this white edge that I love so much. And what did I create?

Well there’s a starry night sky and a moon. And something blue.

A wave! Shamelessly inspired by Hokusai’s “The Great Wave”. I used acrylic paint to make the stars but the rest is just torn pages from books painted with watercolours.

So this is it! I love the different shades of blue and the way the torn paper looks like the waves with their white edges! And that was what I created for this month!

Comment on Stina’s post HERE with your creations on the theme “Letters & Words” to participate!

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Monthly Makers is a challenge for anyone who wants to be more creative or create more. During 2016 we’ll have twelve monthly challenges for you to be inspired by. For April the theme is Letter & Words and Stina is the host. Comment on this post with a link to your creation to participate! You have until the 28th!

The people behind Monthly Makers are Alicia, Anna María, Annica,Beata,Beatrice,Elsa, Mikaela, Ruth, Sandra, Stina and Wilda and me. Get inspired, create and challenge yourself with us all year! Read more here.