Berry many bird collages again | Collage week 32

We like bird collages, right? Right. So happy that you’d say that because I am making a LOT of collages and many have birds on them. This time: berry many! Berry, you ask? Berry!

One evening as I could not stop listening to the audio book I was reading at the time (which was the wonderful Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah, partly about a woman doing research on bird’s nesting habits) I sat in the sofa with a bunch of book pages and cut out birds and other animals. Fussy cutting out images is time-consuming but calming when you have the time to do it without rush. I have lots of this kind of older book pages but rarely take the time to sit with them for a longer period of time, but now that I have started I really want to continue. If I don’t use the images at once I’ll just add them to a folder of fussy cut critters for later collage work.

When I had a pile of birds ready, I simply made “backgrounds” for them to live on and glued them down. Most of these seven collages have a piece from a magazine pattern for cross stitching on it, featuring different garden berries. Hence: berry many birds!

The cross stitch patterns came from another clear-out I recently did. They were in plastic sleeves in a ring binder from when I was about 16 years old and had an intense period of passion with cross-stitching. I found the ring-binder at my mom’s house, took it home and emptied it out. Sold a few patterns but mostly it was magazine patterns that I had saved “for later”, so I put most of those in the paper recycling but also, cut up some for collages. It’s good to save papers when you’re a collage artists.

I continue creating in my series “365 collages in 2025” and hope that you are enjoying the art and the blog posts, still.

Thank you so much for clicking over, taking a look and leaving me a comment below telling me which of these collages you like best – and why you like it. Take care.

Please also check out week 32 2013 and week 32 2018 (Catching the Ladybug).

About this project: I am making one collage for each day of the year in 2025 and blogging seven at a time each week here. I have created 365 artworks in a year thrice before so I am hopeful that I can do it again. I’d love to know which of these you like best – and why you like it. Thanks for helping me finish this by cheering me on. I appreciate you being here.
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365 collages in 2025 | previously w. 31 | now week 32 | next up w. 33

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