Recycling old art

I'd like to thank those who visited yesterday.  I feel so much better today and am ready to meet this November challenge head on.  What do you do with leftover art?  For Day 20, I recycled two pieces of art and turned them into gifts.

This one is left over from a challenge at Moo-Mania and More, where the theme was swirls.  You can read about how I made it here.

I was tired of moving art I had created around, not knowing what to do with it.  Then the light bulb came on and I knew I could change the focal image into something I could be proud to give someone.  I started with a book cover that I painted black and gray.  I hit the high spots of the corrugated cardboard with acrylic paints I took from the focal image colors.

It's ironic that I normally have more sewn quiltlets during AEDM, but this year, my focus seems to be on these book covers and how I can decorate them.

In my opinion, you can NEVER go wrong with flowers, so I added these to the page.   I'm entering it into Moo-Mania and More's latest challenge, which is Lots of Layers.  I'm also calling this one giftable!

I created this collage from recycled materials during my 22 days of April recycling this year.  You can read how I made it and the materials I used here. To further recycle this piece

which was already larger than the smaller book covers I've been working on, I painted the largest book cover I could find in black and streaks of white.

These silk flowers were chosen

to compliment the paper ones I originally fussy cut for the collage.  I included a genuine eucalyptus leaf and added a bit of eucalyptus essential oil to the flowers.  Now more than one sense could be stimulated for this giftable item.

And finally,

I started a third book cover using recycled art, although it looks nothing like the piece I created during 30 paintings in 30 days.  I had been gifted this translucent paper and was pleased when the background showed through.

This is what it looked like before I cut it into a smaller size and backed it with a page from a telephone book I painted using an acrylic craft paint called Lemondrop.

Today is Day 20 of Art Every Day Month or AEDM and I turned two collages I created earlier that I added flowers and backed with book covers into giftable art.  These I'm also entering into Moo-Mania and More's latest challenge, Lots of Layers.  Be sure to check out Moo-Mania and More for more layering inspiration.  I also started a third book cover, but it may not be finished in time to share during the month of November.

I appreciate your support of my art, and your kind comments, which made it easy for me to get back on my feet quickly.