Emma Bumstead
🎲 Making art with an element of chance
🗓️ Taking on weekly challenges/themes for 2025
🖼️ Creative Director at Bryn Mawr College
📍Michigander (#GoBlue) in Philly
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- Day 3: Dug up some old gelli plate prints from a couple of years ago to pair with my interpretation of CFM's Blossom! -- 2x3" with acrylic, gouache, and watercolor on wood. -- #Colortober #MixedMedia #Collage #ArtYear #PhillyArt
- Day 2: I think my interpretation of CFM's desert pink is a bit too pink and red-- but I used the name as backdrop inspiration for today's collage. Don't tell SEPTA that I steal the tickets sometimes as collage fodder 🤣 2x3" | #Colortober #Collage #MixedMedia #ArtYear #PhillyArt
- I'm going to attempt a variant of Inktober this month! I love the idea of #colortober from Case for Making and have prepared wooden tiles with an equivalent color from their list to collage on. That makes the prompt color the background every day-- and I do love a rules-based project 😆
- I've had an idea to do some architecture-inspired collages based on places that I run past that catch my eye for whatever reason. I really liked the pop of salmon pink on this place from my run last Sunday! -- #Collage #ArtYear #MixedMedia #PhillyArt
- Had a beautiful sunset run immediately followed by a thrilling wildlife encounter in the subway 🤣 I love Philly
- I contributed a tiny little monochromatic piece to this— happy world collage day to all who celebrate! 🎉 ✂️
- Easter candy colors at 30th Street Station 🐣🚉 Watercolor, acrylic, and colored pencil on paper. #Collage #ArtYear #MixedMedia
- Took my Brompton on its first commute today! Also— #SaveSEPTA
- Made a little collage on my lunch break that managed to perfectly encapsulate the colors of dying spring blooms on a gray spring day 😂 #Collage #MailArt #ArtYear #MixedMedia
- Happened to find myself at Omoi Zakka in Philly and I’m happy to report they carry LAMY now— excited to try it when I get home! I just finished a huge deadline at work so I deserve a little treat 🤣
- Fulfilled a very specific Philly bucket list item today: I hiked between two SEPTA stations through the Wissahickon-- saw Rittenhouse Town, the Henry Ave bridge, and Kelpius Cave. Looking forward to tackling a longer version of this car-free hike when I have a whole day!
- I'm scheming another tiny art kit and somehow none of my pencils are short enough for the task-- leave it to the resource exchange to have a full grab bag of short pencils and even a tiny brush!
- Earlier this week I made a piece of mail art that I liked too much to send, so I made another inspired partially by its envelope (seen here peeking out from under the art!). I keep forgetting how much I like adding pattern to these shapes with colored pencil. #Collage #MailArt #ArtYear #MixedMedia
- I have no idea what's going on, but I'll take your analysis, @sentimentbot.bsky.social!
- This is meant to be my March mail art submission to send at the end of the month-- but I think I might love it too much to give away! I've been sick for the last several days so it felt good to collage last night. #Collage #MailArt #ArtYear #MixedMedia
- It will come as a surprise to no one that the star church took my breath away 🤩🤩🤩 (the pink one is a stunner, too!)
- Thirty one joyful Keralan churches, in all their technicolour glory. www.haubitz-zoche.de/churches A Friday mood in architectural format.
- “Two Birds, One Hundred Stones” is indeed an instant classic podcast episode for me!
- Hi, I’m Alex goldman I used to host the Reply All podcast. I have a new show now called @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social. People seem to really like the most recent episode so if you’d like to check it out, you can do so at the link below. Thank you!!!
- Come collage with @thetealappeal.bsky.social and me this Thursday in Old City Philly! I had fun with a combination of neon index cards and vintage imagery last month. Reserve your spot here: www.eventbrite.com/e/gab-and-gl...
- This insight into the combination of design and transit is thrilling for me! And to know women designers were behind the work, too. Now I want to ride all the lines they've designed for the next time I'm in London 😁 youtu.be/wrUWEcTjex8?...
- My last-minute February mail art submission is very "reduce, reuse, recycle" themed-- I used two envelopes I received at work this week alongside scrap paper from my January mail art! Also dipping a toe back into embroidering paper. #ArtYear #Collage #MailArt
- For all my mail art people: join me in making a last-minute piece of mail art for Jennifer Stamps' February mail art loop! Deadline is the 20th to sign up. This postcard is the card I received in January 💌 jenniferstamps.com/mail-art-from
- My weekly creative theme is just to make a bunch of tiny collages featuring stars for no other reason than to bring some simple joy into my daily routine 🌟 I’m using random color draws for these to reduce decision making and I’ve gotten some amazing pairings so far! #ArtYear #Collage #Watercolor
- For all my mail art people: join me in making a last-minute piece of mail art for Jennifer Stamps' February mail art loop! Deadline is the 20th to sign up. This postcard is the card I received in January 💌 jenniferstamps.com/mail-art-from
- I've heard LAMY Safari fountain pens mentioned so much in YouTube videos recently by other artists that I am now questioning whether I need one when I haven't thought about fountain pens since art school 😂
- I spent a full hour looking at quilt patterns last night and figured I should sit down and attempt a collaged paper quilt. Not enough contrast between the squares-- but it was fun to use bits of a gift card envelope and a dirty SEPTA ticket 🤣 #ArtYear #Collage #Watercolor #MixedMedia
- Tiny sketches? ✅ Tiny art kit? ✅ Beautiful scenery? ✅ A soothing video by printmaker Molly Lemon-- I love watching other artists on YouTube and need to share some of my favorite videos more often! youtu.be/CXsWm6cAExw?...
- I'm planning on making a collage or two for #Februllage this year! I've got my eye on certain prompts like... dots! 🟣 🔴 🔵
- it's time for FEBRULLAGE, a month-long celebration of collage where folks are welcomed to make collages based on a prompt list & connect with others! thank you @missprinted.bsky.social @rhedfawell.bsky.social @edincollagecoll.bsky.social for organizing it! #februllage #collage #collageart
- "When social media begins to feel like a dense forest that’s pressing in around you, find a clearing – a quiet glade or meadow where the light shines." Not sure if Bluesky is 100% quiet glade for me, but it's been surprisingly fun to start over in a less crowded space.
- How to navigate social media as part of your creative practice > buff.ly/40pOC4F
- A quick little collage using my copy of Dictionary of Color Combinations for palette inspiration. I just realized that there is a companion site for the book now, too! Here's 194 in digital form: sanzo-wada.dmbk.io/combination/... #ArtYear #Collage #Watercolor #AbstractArt
