Exploring My Family Curse

The top portion of “The Curse” (Michelle Casey, Collage, July 2013)… veering away from the rectangular format this piece’s outer elements defines its shape.

These past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on a collage about my family curse. If you’ve been following my blog lately, you’ll know about this and the three […]

Summer Reading List: Art-Inspired Novels for Everyone!

Recently I ran across Alyson Stanfield’s Art Biz Coach Blog which listed some great summer reading featuring fiction novels with artists as their main characters. It was such a great idea that it had me wondering what books I’d include on my list. The stuff in my favourite novels is always swimming around in […]

Collage Tip #14: Incorporating Quotes into Your Collages

There’s No Right or Wrong Way to Collage a Quote…

I thought I’d end my writing series (for now) with another fun tip for integrating words into your collage and mixed media pieces. We’re not all great writers and thinkers so it’s a good thing there are plenty of wonderful quotes out there that […]

Everything Old is New Again: Re-inventing Stories to Collage

Since time immemorial, story tellers have been taking old stories and making them new again. Walt Disney after all was not the first man to relay the tale of Cinderella – its origins are centuries old and it has been re-crafted by many cultures around the world. You can use this same exciting tactic […]

How Writing Can Inspire Your Collaging

So, some of you more timid souls might have gotten out your pens and markers and went about writing on your collages as I encouraged last week. If so, I applaud you. Perhaps, however, you’re still feeling frustrated. Maybe the words aren’t flowing out as smoothly as you’d like them to. In order to […]

The Way of the Zentangle…

Shaking Things Up Creatively…

Every now and again I like to shake things up creatively. In December I made my first collage zine and this month I decided to follow the way of Zentangle! For the past couple of years, I’ve been itching to get back into drawing but never seem to have the […]

Frida Kahlo: Wielding the Brush of Anguish!

Frida Kahlo painting a stunning self-portrait

“I recommend her to you, not as a husband but as an enthusiastic admirer of her work, acid and tender, hard as steel and delicate and fine as a butterfly’s wing, lovable as a beautiful smile, and as profound and cruel as the bitterness of life.” (Diego […]

My First Collage Zine!

The front cover of Michelle Casey’s Zine L’invisible/The Invisible takes the reader through a series of journeys through the artist’s mind…

My First Collage Zine!

Well, I must say, it’s been nice to be back in the studio this month creating on a more regular basis in between bursts of holiday shopping! Taking […]

Collage Your World’s Holiday Book Wish List

I derive a small but divine pleasure that exceeds my own imagination from the process of taking apart something and completely rearranging its components as I see fit. For me, collage is not so much about the art or forms of expression; it is something that is intimately connected to my everyday life. Like […]

September Reflections

My latest collage in progress on my work table, September 8, 2012. Don’t know what I’ll call it. It has to do remembering, forgetting and death. I feel it needs some text.

This week, in keeping up with my big re-org plans, I tended to a couple of challenging projects in my studio: […]