Celebrating Community and Mystery
(Art and Soul Space blog’s first birthday continues through the month of May.
Why not?)
Blue Bird O’Clock
Sally Swain © original art
What I remember:
Late last year, a blogger used the phrase ‘Bird O’Clock’. This sparked my visual imagination. I promised (or threatened) to create an artwork. I went into paintage mode. Paintage is my term for painting plus collage.
Paintage =
more fun than the coverall ‘mixed media’+ it sounds French, so it must be arty.
I searched for bird and clock images in magazines. I found plenty – enough for two pictures. I’ll share the process of one of these paintages…and show you the other one next week if you’re up for it.
First: collage,
Blue Bird O’Clock
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Sally Swain © original art
then a blue wash over each of them.
Blue Bird O’Clock
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Sally Swain © original art
I let them sit until I knew what to do next.
Pause pause pause
Breathe breathe breathe
Live live live
Busy busy busy
Many moons later I returned to the pictures.
I found the images that wanted to be found. I brought them through.
In one case a woman.
In the other – surprise surprise – a bird.
Blue Bird O’Clock
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Sally Swain © original art
Blue Bird O’Clock
Sally Swain © original art
The Mystery
Here’s the thing.
I want to acknowledge and thank that fine blogger who coined the ‘Bird O’Clock’ phrase. Was it you?
I’m sorry to say I don’t recall who it was, and I place a lot of value on giving credit where it’s due.
My strategy:
I will mention a few of the blogs I love.
Hopefully
- this will reveal the Bird O’Clock originator
- and it is an act of connecting with creativity in community, which is, after all, Art and Soul Space’s intention.
The Creative Love Exchange lives!
Please feel free to check out the following blogs. I recommend them all.
And dear Bird O’Clock originator, please come forward. And thank you thank you thank you for your inspiration.
Art and Soul Space 
Not me – but I love how you are so into this and your collage is really singing ! Nice work!!
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Thank you. Your feeback matters to me.
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Singing Collage…what a great concept!!! Now, how am I going to do that?
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PS Some new blogs for me to follow – thank you for that too
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You are most welcome
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Great piece and I love the playfulness. 😆
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Thank you so much, Frenchapple, who didn’t originate Bird O’Clock, but could have. I can well imagine you creating a vintage collage with this theme.
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It wasn’t me, but I love how a phrase can inspire such a lovely painting. I think your word “paintage” is awesome! It does sound arty and French.
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Thank you kindly. And here’s a little secret about Art Therapy with an elderly nursing home resident. One lady said one day ‘It’s just a blob’. There and then we invented ‘Blobbage’. Fancy and French. We continue to laugh. And she continues to be proud of being the Blobbage expert.
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Funny! Sounds like a fun day and a fun word!
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Thank you. I like to find ways to help people value their creations. (Big part of the job, I guess). If it can be done in a fun way, all the better. Blobbage blobbage blobbage.
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Love this one too Sally its beautiful.
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Thank you, Kath
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