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Zeeland, MI
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Title
Quilting My Past Recycling My Dreams Tulip Quilt
Artist
Conni Schaftenaar
Medium
Mixed Media - Paper Collage On Canvas
Description
Quilting My Past, Recycling My Dreams Tulip Collage, paper collage on black canvas, by Conni Schaftenaar
Over many years, I have put my art on greeting cards and annual calendars, originally done as gifts to clients of my marketing business. I took sample prints and left over printed materials from some of these items and cut petal shapes, combined them into tulips, made stems and leaves, and mounted everything on a black canvas on which I created a "quilted" background". The tulips, stems, and leaves all have "quilting" stitches on them, and look like an appliqué on the top of a black quilt. It was fun to make, and I've made another companion piece to it in other colors! The two together would make a great diptych! Hope you enjoy it. I used matte medium for the mounting of all the pieces, and then coated the whole piece with liquid matte medium. All of the printed pieces are from my original art - some watercolor paintings, some alcohol ink paintings, some digital art created from scans of my hand art, using Photoshop to manipulate the image. This was a challenge to me because it's my first major collage work that required first the "vision", and then experimenting with techniques to pull it off.
I entered this in a contest by the group The ARTIST BUZzz and participated in the discussion in the contest that required a haiku about the art - here's what I wrote:
Tulips dance, quilt dreams
Paper petals bow and pose.
Re-use, re-purpose!
1st place tie in the What Does The New Year Look Like to You contest, January 2022
3rd place tie in the KTBUZzz-COLLAGE VISION BOARDZzz and Haikus Contest, January 2022
2nd place win in the Hand Created Artwork group Logo Contest, January 2022
3rd place tie in the Conceptual Abstracts 6 contest, January 2022
Honorable Mention finish in the Your Start in 2022 contest, January 2022
Honorable Mention finish in the Art From The Heart contest, March 2022
1st Place tie finish in the Sharing Loving Caring contest, April 2022
Featured in:
A Woman's Touch, December 2021
Roses and Tulips, December 2021
Created By My Hands - Non Digital, December 2021
Fantasy Flowers, December 2021
Art - It Is Good For You, December 2021
The ARTIST BUZzz, December 2021
Floral Photography and Art, December 2021
Collage, December 2021
Flowers Flora Blossoms, January 2022
Abstraction as a Dialogue with a Higher I, January 2022
Vertical Images, January 2022
Fabulous Florals for Everyone, January 2022
For the Love of Flowers, January 2022
Non Photography, January 2022
Hand Created Artwork, January 2022
Uploaded
December 29th, 2021
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Niceville, Fl - United States
Voted your beautiful entry in the Green Waters, Ponds, Reflections contest.
Punta Gorda, FL - United States
Congratulations on your Top Finish in the contest… REPURPOSED ART! F/L
Fort Worth, TX - United States
CONGRATS on your honorable mention in the COLLAGE LOGO contest with this fabulous collage Conni!
Niceville, Fl - United States
Outstanding work! Voted your entry in the Artwork sold in September contest.
Danville, KY - United States
YAY!!!…Conni, you are making the rounds in juried exhibits and SIZZLING in Sales this year! YAY!, YAY! …CONTINUED BEST, my friend. FAV!
Zeeland, MI - United States
Thanks to the buyer from Comstock Park MI for purchasing a framed print of this piece! Hope you enjoy it!
Conyers, GA - United States
This is brilliant, and I loved reading about your process for this piece--you obviously had many lovely artworks of yours to choose from to create your tulips! L/F
Danville, KY - United States
Love the haiku Conni and the thread made possible by our New Moderator, Katherine…YAY! So, I can’t WAIT to see more haikus surfacing, Conni, my friend. You are so talented in multiple media and in your poetic expressions too!..:-) thanks for sharing in The BUZzz
Rowlett, Te - United States
This is awesome and excellent use recycling of the greeting card art. Such a quaint haiku! so fun :)
Punta Gorda, FL - United States
Congratulations on your Top Finish in the contest… CONTEST 20- KTBUZZZ-2022 ART GAME SERIES- SCRABBL...! Fl
Ridgefield, WA - United States
Congratulations Conni, on your 1st place win in the"SHARING LOVING CARING APRIL" Contest!
Martville, NY - United States
Congratulations, Conni, on your 1st Place Win in the Sharing Loving Caring Contest for this beautiful painting! Voted.
Niceville, Fl - United States
Congratulations on your first place win in the Sharing Caring contest! voted l/f
Zeeland, MI - United States
Thanks to all who voted this to a 1st place tie finish in the Sharing Loving Caring contest - I so appreciate your support!
Danville, KY - United States
I haven’t had time to look at Contest results…must catch up …tomorrow…in the meantime, CONGRATULATIONS…
Danville, KY - United States
Dear Conni, you so understand the heart of this contest because your very aesthetic IS at its heART..OF MEDIA PLAY…of S..T..R..E..T..C..H..I..N..G…ME/us all!… BEST TO YOU! You already know the Joy of this exercise…YOU have already WON!
Zeeland, MI - United States
Honorable Mention finish in the Art From the Heart contest, March 2022 - thanks to all who voted!
Zeeland, MI - United States
Thanks, Laurel, and thanks for your input while this was a WIP re composition!
Danville, KY - United States
Awesome, Conni!…I am loving your mixture of “comfortable media” and the uncharted inspiration derived from a repurposing effort of your original, traditionally printed art to create yet another form of Original Art that took you into another process…collage!… It occurs to me that this artistic expression, much like digital artistry, might likewise hold a lesser designation with the ArtWorld pundits…yet on a creativity scale derived from “traditional” artistry, you have likewise sought to further liberate it through a transitioning process. This speaks to the heaArt of this contest. YAY!
San Francisco Bay Area, CA - United States
Such a beautiful array of colors, textures and designs in this magnificent floral portrait of beauty and creativity, Conni! F/L
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