Hi dear readers,
Most of you know that I have two big passions (there are more, but now I'm talking about BIG), they are collages and fiber art. While I usually switch between these two media regularly, the fiber part has been neglected a bit lately, I guess this is mainly due to the instant gratification factor at making collages! To make it up, I decided to work with textiles again for the time to come, because now we are still at our home in the Caribbean and I have all necessities at hand, whereas we will be travelling again a lot this summer and then I have to do with paper and glue...
Back to textiles: mostly I am working in a spontaneous way, with just a vague idea somewhere 'above' what I want to make, it can be just an internal picture of some colours combined, and then I simply start working. This time it went in a different way, however, for I found this great design tutorial and decided to give it a try.
Boy, that really was working outside my comfort zone!
Firstly I tore magazine pictures to pieces and glued them down on a sheet of white paper. Then I coloured around the shapes with pastel crayons (unfortunately I did not picture this step) 
after having coloured with pastels around the shapes on the complete paper I turned the paper and cut it in strips and squares, unseen, to prevent making choices and really get a spontaneous result
Here are some of my squares. I had a colour combination in my head of yellow and pink and should have made it using oil crayons, for these pastels did what they are named after: they gave me pastels (that I usually don't like, didn't I mention the comfort zone??!) 
This is one of the strips I glued down in my art journal without any other next to it, for I really liked the outcome. Maybe I could make it in fabric, so that would be my first really designed work? want to know how it has ended? read more tomorrow.... enjoy your Monday! grtz, Regina 
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