Why Mixed Media collage and assemblage?
A. I know for myself I need to have a lot of stimulation going on. I get board easily and if I had to work in one artist medium I wouldn’t be able to express myself the way I do. There is a freedom that happens when you get a thought while you’re creating like, “if I only had a button or if I could add some texture and give it a different color”. Again the freedom to choose the different mediums is why I picked collage and assemblage, or better yet it picked me. I’m a very tactile person learning better when I touch things. The thought of only working with one medium is stifling. Q. What mediums do you use and which one is your favorite and why? A. The list of mediums that I use for collage are Golden Products mostly, polymer gloss medium for gluing and transfers, soft gel, molding pastes, tack iron, transfer papers, fluid acrylics, handmade papers that I made myself from yucca, day lily, iris. I mix that plant fiber pulp with canson drawing papers to get the colors that I want.(Canson
