March and aprils art challenge

The last couple of art challenges have been really difficult for me to overcome, and even after having taken them on I have been struggeling to get them finished. If you dont know what I am talking about look at The Jealous Curators blog.
But here they come, in all their splendor ;-)

March was all about painting sheets of paper and, chopping that into abstract or representational shapes, and then move them around until arriving at a composition. It was given to us by Kate Pugsley.

This challenge was somehow incredibly difficult for me, and I never really felt that I arrived at something that spoke to me, as an artist.

The first part:

And my attempts at arriving at compositions:

And some scrap bits, that actually inspires me!

Aprils challenge from Cassandra Smith was making a sculpture from a found object! Immediately I knew what I was going to do. For some time I had been collecting lost gloves and mittens. My parameter was that they should look really forgotten and preferably I should bike past them a couple of times before collecting them. Within the month I had a considerable collection. But then the creative block sat in! What to actually do with them???

Time passed and I had only vague ideas......

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Then one day these came along:

So far so good, but I think this has actually opened op for something, that I will continue doing!

.....Mays challenge I havent done yet......