Emerald Grafitti is 6x6" acrylic media and collage on 8x8" matte board.
Monday, November 28, 2011
Monday, November 7, 2011
Bygone Time
Design and Texture: This series is taking on a feeling of ancient finds, textures from the passing of time. Layering collage pieces which I've designed and made, still beginning with the Grid, is endlessly fascinating.
Bygone Time is 8x8" Acrylic media and collage on panel.
Portal
Values and Edges: Even with collage, you need to focus on values and edges. This often means that in the middle of a composition, I need to go back to the drawing board and re-make a paper. Generally, I am painting tissue paper. Slowly I'm accumulating papers in a number of values and saturations.
Portal is 6x6" Acrylic media and collage on panel.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Graffiti
How to start a collage: When our class asked Carrie Burns Brown how she begins a collage, she responded wryly: " There is no way to begin a collage. You just start gluing things down." This may be sage advice about starting any painting. I find sometimes it is not until the hand begins to move that the ideas begin to come!
Graffiti is 8x8" acrylic and collage on panel.
Antique
Antique: Continuing to explore Design by Grid. I'm getting the sense of red lacquer and worn leather. Remembrances of ancestors and their journeys.
Antique is 8x8" Acrylic media and collage on panel.
Harvest
Limited palette: With collage, I've used fluid acrylics for the first time. Also new colors: raw umber, thalo turquoise, nickel azo yellow. As I discovered in oil, limiting your palette can really strengthen your design. And limiting your palette is not just putting out a few colors to paint with. It means limiting the colors that actually end up on the canvas! Big difference! This involves a lot of restraint.
Harvest is 6x6" acrylic and collage mounted on 8x8" matte board.
Affiche
Affiche: I'm still experimenting with designing in a grid, working with analogous warm colors. Also trying for some interesting texture. As in Graffiti, I'm seeing a wall with traces of old posters, peeled and worn by weather and the passage of time.
Affiche is 6x6" Acrylic media and collage on panel.
Autumn
Simple composition, complex surface: The wonderful gouache artist Donna Zagotta once said that she aspires to "simple compositions with complex surface treatments." I think that is a great way to try and harness all the delicious papers I've been making!
Autumn is 7x7" acrylic and collage, mounted on 10x10" matte board.
Forest Texture
Color Design: By limiting your colors, you can make lovely combinations. Here I've stuck to yellow-greens and blue-greens, evoking summer foliage and bark-like texture.
Forest Texture is 6x6" acrylic and collage, mounted on 8x8" matte board.
Summer
Designing in a Grid: I like working in a grid. You have to be careful to vary distances and textures. And in the end I think your value scheme decides whether or not the composition is intriguing.
Summer is 6x6" acrylic and collage mounted on 8x8" matte board.
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