Angelica Paez Collages

Angelica Paez combs secondhand shops for ephemera treasures:

vintage postcards, magazines, stamps, receipts, photos and such.

She cleverly combines bits and pieces to create 

imaginative collages, with equally imaginative titles.

No digital work here, just good old scissors and glue.

Sometimes she adds scraps of fabric or thread for embellishment,

or actual stitches as with the collage above, Flapjack Mountain.

Blondie Wouldn't, But Dagwood

Fishy Business

Old Fashioned Values in a Modern World

Big Wigs

Gelatinseltown

Night Sweats

Talk is Cheap

Optical Illusion

Rosy Cheeks

Delight

Monumental

Pigment of Her Imangination

Here's Angelica's website.

Images used with direct permission from Angelica Paez.

Mark Powell’s Bird Drawings

So, forget the expensive tools of the trade.

No concern for India ink, fancy brushes, chisel tips or sepia.

Not a care as to nib size, or whether the pH is neutral.

To create his spectacular bird illustrations,

Mark Powell used...

wait for it...

a lowly Bic ballpoint pen.

Seriously.

Black. 

Medium point.

Now, in the United Kingdom, the place Mark calls home,

ballpoint pens are known as biros,

after Mr. Biro, who invented them.

As far as the paper upon which he draws,

it's from Mark's collection of antique envelopes and ephemera

dating back as far as 1756.

I appreciate how well it provides each piece with integrity and character,

along with a rich sense of history. 

Here's Mark's website and Facebook page.

Images used with direct permission from Mark Powell.