Review: Geninne's Art, Birds in watercolor, collage & ink

As part of my year of experimentation, I'm looking at other artists work, specifically books about collage.  I want to keep using textiles as my medium but physically can't do the quilting & stitching that I used to do.  So, I'm focusing on collage.  While checking books about collage at my local library, I stumbled on this book.  Collage & birds, oh my.

I was not familiar with the artist, Geninne D. Zlatkis, before this book and that's my loss.  She does delighful birds, wonderful use of color and her book gives me lots of ideas because of the step by step photography of her process in specific pieces.  I am getting lots of ideas that I can easily apply to my textile collages because none of the things she does require working with paper.  I have ordered some opaque acrylic pens to try out her technique of using acrylic ink to add detail to her work.  I'll be trying this out on the snail series but no reason it can't be as effective as her sample below.

The top photo is the watercolor painting at step 5 of the 6 total.  And the bottom is with white ink additions for detail.  It really helps pop the colors and enhances the piece.

I'm looking forward to playing with other ideas from this book.  If you enjoy bird art, or doing collage, I'd recommend checking it out.