I made this fabric collage for a swap at Art for the Creative Mind (
AFTCM), a Yahoo group for mixed media artists.
My theme in this collage is “Inuit Girl.” The collage is an eight inch square.
For backing, I used a square of book board and covered it with an off-white fabric.
The Intuit girl in the picture is an image transfer, done using an image found at Graphics Fairy Blogspot, and transferred using glossy gel medium.
The Intuit words in the background are also done using the same image transfer technique. Thanks to AFTCM member Sue Cantin for providing me with the image file containing the words.
The dark brown fabric is made from scraps of brown leather. The “fur” is actually cut from an old wall hanging made from llama wool. I know that llamas are not native to the North, but I have no fur to use and wouldn’t use it if I did. I am not a believer in animals dying so I can have their fur for frivolous purposes.
I finished by adding a few flat, polished stones that resemble sea glass.