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A new idea and/or collaboration(if interested)

i keep having the idea of a collaboration where one artist sends another artist scraps, images, pages, objects, or magazines and the receiving artist creates a collage using given materials. after reading the topic of scraps and my personal interest in scraps, i would love to do something like this with other artists who are willing to compile an envelope of scraps and send it my way and each of us create a new work using those materials. whether they modify the scraps with tools is up to the artist. i like the idea of no modification. just using the scraps as is.

Who's with me?

feel free to post address or email me address and i shall give you mine.

thanks,

matt taggart

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Permalink Reply by Diane Dellicarpini on June 23, 2012 at 4:19pm

Hey, these look good.

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Permalink Reply by Matthew Taggart on June 23, 2012 at 4:44pm

Ken, it is an interesting process. i'm glad to see your works with Adrian's scraps. i'm excited to get his in the mail and work with them. i sent out yours and Adrian's scraps this morning. i have more scraps of your Ken. need to work with the rest. been working with music lately. sadly haven't gotten to collage but i'm feeling the need to play with glue and paper soon.

thanks Diane. please feel free to join the experiment.

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Permalink Reply by ken coleman on June 24, 2012 at 5:34am

This is the second "as is" from Adrian's scraps. 9 x 12 inches.

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Permalink Reply by Adrian Jugaru on June 24, 2012 at 6:27am

Love it, it turned out great!

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Permalink Reply by ken coleman on June 26, 2012 at 11:24am

Adrian's Scraps -- cut, torn, punched. 5.5 X 10 inches on Canson Art Board.

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Permalink Reply by Matthew Taggart on June 28, 2012 at 6:02pm

ken, i really enjoy these pieces using Adrian's scraps. the last one is really nice. my favorite. its getting me excited to get his in the mail and see what i can do with them.

then i was thinking of using some of the scraps Ken sent me and combine them with Adrian's scraps and maybe some of mine. three way scrap battle.

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Permalink Reply by ken coleman on June 29, 2012 at 2:42am

Thanks, Matt.

Three way scrap battle, eh? . . . let 'er rip!

--Ken

Matthew Taggart said:

ken, i really enjoy these pieces using Adrian's scraps. the last one is really nice. my favorite. its getting me excited to get his in the mail and see what i can do with them.

then i was thinking of using some of the scraps Ken sent me and combine them with Adrian's scraps and maybe some of mine. three way scrap battle.

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Permalink Reply by Gwenn Mayers on June 29, 2012 at 8:48am

I am interested, have lots of scraps ready to go.

What's next?

Gwenn Mayers

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Permalink Reply by Matthew Taggart on June 29, 2012 at 7:54pm

Hello Gwenn,

so glad to hear you are on board with this. thank you.

so we need to exchange addresses and each of us send each other our scraps and see what we both can make of them. you can also contact Ken and Adrian if you like. more the merrier.

i will send you a friend request and email you my address and if you like send me yours.

thanks again. hope all is well.

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Permalink Reply by ken coleman on July 2, 2012 at 10:16am

Here are some of the scraps from Matt that showed up today.
Now, let's see . . .

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Permalink Reply by Adrian Jugaru on July 2, 2012 at 1:34pm

Ok, so here's one I did using resources from the three of us. The kid is mine, i used the envelope that Ken sent me scraps in for the background and the red globe is from Matt. I always name my collages, this one is "Memories receptacle".