Yankee thrift

I always say that it is my Yankee nature that I won't throw anything away. I will repaint and reprint over things until they look good or are beyond saving. But then if I go too far, there is always the option of tearing and cutting apart, because, even if the whole is not good, some part of it is. And that is why god (or Picasso and Braque) invented collage.

I had been wanting to make some collages with my dyed scraps of paper (see the previous post), and I had a show coming up and wanted to have some unframed and inexpensive items to fill out my display. These are some of my favorite collages that I made with my scraps.