making do.
With bricolage, you play with the materials at hand, even if they are old soggy paint-logged facial tissues.
‘These magical acts of creation are analogous to pulling a large amount of rabbit from a small amount of hat.’
says Stephen Nachmanovitch in ‘Free Play – the Power of Improvisation in Life and the Arts’. *

Dabflowers
Sally Swain © original art
picture made from other people’s leftover paint tissues, plus glue, watercolour, pen.
Quite 3 dimensional. Coiled tissue pirals in the centre.
Remember a couple of