Mindful Makings | Collage week 27 2025

I like mindful makings, and collage is always that for me. A moment of calm, sitting with my images and gluing bits together. I love that so much, and that’s why I’m trying to create 365 collages this year. That, and I have a lot of ephemera, papers, scraps and magazines to pull from. So let’s see what this week brought out…

The base for these seven collages are little line drawings from a book about Swedish flora and fauna. I got it for the color illustrations of mostly birds, but I also saved these little numbered drawings identifying the different parts of a flower or animal. I like that they are like maps, or schematic house plans, while giving us a glimpse in to the natural world and what we as human named it.

I randomly found these little illustrations in a folder together, and thought they should get a spot in the light each. On their own they are quite mellow, but as they sparked this idea I feel grateful once again to my former self who kept them instead of tossing them. And just as with the black and white monkey business collages I thought these black line-drawings on stark white needed a very colorful background… So I went to work.

This blog post contains seven freshly made collage artworks (number 183 to 189) from this summer, as I continue creating in my series “365 collages in 2025”. I hope you like them.

This one contains a nod to the vintage substrate that I’m still using (but they will be running out in about 4-5 weeks):

I picked out (and glued down) all the corresponding snake shaped background bits before reading the text under this head, just to learn it is not of a snake at all, but a lizard:

This collage makes me remember my white-haired neighbor Titti who had a handmade, quilted turtle softie on the floor by the patio door, that I used to play with when I visited her and her husband as a kid (I visited all my elderly neighbors on our little cozy street, and everyone knew me and my parents by name):

A white background like these book illustrations are printed on is something I otherwise might avoid in my artwork, but here I kept most of it, except in the bee-image (collage 184 above) and this frog image below, that I hit with some watercolors to “blend it” all together a bit better:

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, if you enjoyed the series, – and why you like it. Take care.

Please also check out week 27 2013 – Glue Flow (!) and week 27 2018 (Shabby Chic Style).

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. 26 | this is w. 27 | next up w. 28

All art created by hand by iHanna. Copyright Hanna Andersson. All rights reserved. AI FUCK OF