I've been making a lot of small art lately. More saleable work to put at the various venues where I've been showing recently. The small birds and nests have been selling very well - three at the Morris Museum and three more at the recent Hilltop Art Show. Now, if only the large work would sell! Oh well, I do enjoy making the small works too. I noticed that birds were a common subject matter at the Hilltop Show.

TraillWorks Gallery is having a new showing for the upcoming holiday giving season - "Good Things, Small Packages".

For a change of pace I thought I'd get away from fabric for a little while and do something different. Not that I haven't done it before, but I decided to do some paper collage. Little bits of paper instead of little bits of fabric! Still plenty of color though.

Music is my theme this time around. Here is what I delivered to the gallery this week. I will continue to make more of these small pieces, maybe even some birds.

"Duetto"  6" x 6"  © Martha C. Hall

"Do Re Mi"  6" x 6"  © Martha C. Hall

"Fanfare"  6" x 6"  © Martha C.Hall

"Jim Has A New Drum"  6" x 6"  © Martha C. Hall

"Jim Has A New Drum", detail

These pictures are all made on 6" x 6" cradled wood panels. I used liquid gloss medium to secure all the papers and to give a finish coat. My papers are hand colored assorted types, old books and sheet music, scrap and found papers.

The images only show the face of each picture, although the images wrap around the edges on all of them. The detail shot of "Jim Has A New Drum" shows an example of how the picture wraps around.

Messy and lots of fun, so I'll probably make more!

These are all available for sale at TraillWorks Gallery through January 8, 2012. The opening reception is this Saturday, November 12th, 5-8 pm. For the special pre-opening sale on November 11, click here to register.

Until next time -

MCH