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Mellisa
@pixyofwhimsy.bsky.social
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County Librarian, former local journalist. My home is full of books and rescue dogs.
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Hey, look… a collage!
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a person jumping into the air on a surfboard My collage has Greg Louganis with a white Great Dane standing in front of a green ocean with the words The Life of the Sea in the background. The diver from the challenge image has leaped from Louganis’ shoulder toward the water
July 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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I’ve been doing the Paris Collage Collective’s challenges, I just haven’t been sharing them. Here’s this week’s.
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The challenge: a painting of a young boy holding a book Artist William Bonnell Title J. Ellis Bonham My collage: a creepy buck’s head with weeds stuck on the antlers sits atop the boy’s shoulders. He still holds his book but is now standing in front of a steaming geyser with mountains in the background
May 17, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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This week’s Paris Collage Collective’s challenge
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This week’s challenge is a black and white photo of a woman with her hand on her face Georgia O’Keeffe Date: 1918 Artist: Alfred Stieglitz American, 1864–1946 https://w My collage makes the hand oversized, covering the face of a 1950s’ bombshell. She looks out at the camera. A button from the challenge image is on her coat. A gold ball bracelet covers her oversized wrist. A green ocean with a gold and turquoise sky shows in the background
April 5, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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This week’s Paris Collage Collective’s challenge
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This week’s challenge image is a drawing of a face with images of a lady’s face for pupils and a man with a shepherd’s crook inside the forehead. Botanical images fill up the rest of the face’s background. “Look not in my eyes". From ' A Shropshire lad'. Production Tom Chadwick; 1930 -1937 Classification prints, wood engravings, works on paper Materials ink, paper Materials Summary wood engraving Techniques wood engraving Dimensions Image: 177mm (width), 205mm (height) Registration Number 1953-0003-44 Credit line Gift of Rex Nan Kivell, 1953 My collage uses the outside of the face and chin flipped over to create a frame around a photo of people standing among very large cigarettes. The cigarettes are double the size of the people. The background behind the frame is of a man and woman from China, each smoking a cigarette
March 29, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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I love the committed group of protesters who meet every week in our tiny town.
A group of citizens hold signs, Ukrainian flags, and American flags in protest of the current administration
March 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Got my dog a coyote vest. Now she’s the most punk rock pup in town.
Small, gray merle corgi papillon mix stands in a teal vest with silver spikes Small, gray merle corgi papillon mix stands in a teal vest with silver spikes
March 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Week 8 of Paris Collage Collective’s 2025 challenge

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This week’s challenge is group of white flowers on a deep blue background HD photo of plant, amaryllidaceae, blossom, and flower by Skyler Ewing My collage shows a woman in a jean jacket with one of the flowers as a skirt and another as a hat. She leans on a rock with her legs in the water. There is a stream and waterfall behind her with mossy rocks and a green hillside. An over scale green hummingbird sits to the woman’s right, focusing on the flower hat
February 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Week seven of the Paris Collage Collective’s 2025 challenge
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This week’s challenge is a black and white photo of tall in Berlin, Germany by Nikita Pishchugin My collage shows the black and white photo upside down with another partial building and tower in the foreground right side up. A red ant opens its mandibles around the buildings. One of the mandibles reaches outside the frame of the photo
February 16, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Week 6 of Paris Collage Collective’s 2025 challenge

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This week’s challenge is an old sepia toned photo of a man standing with his hands in his pants pockets. He looks up at the sky. A house and vegetation—and possibly two power lines—are in the background My collage shows the man on a background of blue canvas with white, squiggly stripes. He is looking up at a large red cardinal that is landing on the man’s head
February 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Week 5 of Paris Collage Collective’s 2025 challenge

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The challenge this week is a pink flower with a green background Pink Gerbera My collage incorporates the pink flowers’ petals as eyelashes around the eye of a person with yellow-painted skin. A bee crawls up the cheek of the person, toward the eye
February 2, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Paris Collage Collective’s week 4 challenge for 2025

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The challenge is an Illustration of a horse walking on a bridge out of frame with fabric sitting on its back. Below are wooden boats on the water with rows of buildings in the background Nihonbashi: from the series Views of famous places of Edo Production Shigenobu Hiroshige II; artist; November 1862; Japan Collage shows a woman with a Roman column instead of legs. She stands with her arms crossed in front of her. Part of the fabric from the challenge image has been reworked as a necktie. The woman stares forward. The whole piece is on a brown background
January 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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The third week of Paris Collage Collective’s 2025 challenge

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The challenge image is of a woman, cropped from the cleavage up, with red balls covering her head from the nose upwards My collage that uses the challenge image is of a bird with red balls covering its sides and bottom with two of the red ball arrangements from the first image. The bird holds a shadowed Earth in its craw and sits in front of an ocean and horizon with the glow of the setting sun
January 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Week 2 of Paris Collage Collective’s 2025 challenge

I used to post these on a Meta platform, and I’ve missed sharing them, so I thought I’d post here.

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A woman in sheer black clothing with a face that’s part of a building stands on another part of the building. Everything is on a teal background
January 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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It’s extremely difficult not to regularly photograph this pup.
Gray, white, and tan corgi/papillon puppy with a large chew toy laying on a tan and polka dot blanket. Her ID tag reads, “Selkie.”
December 4, 2024 at 2:33 AM
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Good morning!
Two fishing boats sit in a parking lot with a hill, the ocean, and a cloudy morning sky in the background
November 26, 2024 at 7:35 PM
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The dogs say goodnight
Black and white McNab lays on a pile of pillows and blankets Black and white Border Collie lays on a fur blanket and blue blanket on a gray couch Gray, tan, and white corgi/papillon sleeps on a blue blanket on a gray couch
November 26, 2024 at 2:59 AM
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Man, my puppy is cute!
Gray, brown, and white puppy with a chew ring sitting on an area rug
November 24, 2024 at 4:37 PM
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This early morning view makes it so much easier to go to the gym.
Rocky cove with cliff and ocean in the background Large rock with ocean and pier in the background
November 19, 2024 at 9:06 PM
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A collage piece I created during the Pasted Paper library program I run each Saturday.
Collage of a giraffe wearing Victorian clothing with a grass background
November 18, 2024 at 8:50 PM