Michael Rosen has set today’s Janaury challenge! The 64 Million Artists crew are pulling our the big guns!
Michale has asked us to create a poem using sounding words and our earliest memories. Poetry was never a string subject for me at school but Michael has given some advice to create using sounding words.
My earliest memory is washing the car with my dad. So I am going to collage an image of me and my dad washing his old car, the vauxhall viva.
The poem
Swishing, Swashing
We’re car washing,
Buckets and sponges
Wet legs and hands,
Top to bottom
Side to side,
The swishing, swashing
Car washing ride!
Okay, so it’s not going to challenge the works of Shakespeare so I’ve also created an illustration as well.
Collage is a very versatile medium and you can create loose work or nicely scissor cut images. I love to tear the paper and use the edges as guidelines. This encourages looser work. I use sugar paper which has a lovely matt effect against the inky blackness of my line work.
Keeping things simple creates nice loose work.
