As is my custom, sometime in the month of February I turn my studio over to playing with collage. It starts with sharing the space and resources with a group of friends, and we spend a day playing together. For the past several years, we’ve handed around a group collage over the course of the day. Here’s what we came up with this year. The background is a discarded sketch by my friend Henry Thomas’ father George, who passed away last year. I was fortunate to be gifted a generous supply of his leftover art materials, and a few of his paintings and sketches. I’m not sure what he would have thought of this, but we certainly loved working with it as our ground surface!

As usual, I didn’t actually finish much on the day of the party, but here are the two little pieces that I actually got set up and glued down.