An idea I`ve had for a long time, is to use my reject Yupo watercolors for collage. Yesterday I did it with this simple first effort. Although it`s tiny, I was cutting and moving shapes around for a good three hours before I reached for the glue. The process was awkward and used a part of brain that isn`t active much, it felt really unfamiliar. The work of Romare Bearden has excited me for a long time. It`s inventive and hopeful and rich. He was the ultimate collage artist.
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How did you ever learn about him? In school?
You've got something very visually powerful here - hope you do more.
Collage can give more sense of control over key elements: not so many slips possible as when wielding a paintbrush. But what are you using for glue? Do you ever have trouble with it pushing outside the edges of the collage pieces (meaning that some of shows a bit around the collaged pieces?
These are fairly crude Mr. Kingfisher. Technically I don`t know anything about collage. I`m using a reversible neutral ph glue called Nori.
Ditto re Romare Bearden. I like the process you describe of taking such time to find your composition. It has worked well!
I find this hard to look at because it looks to me like an exposed heart. Of course that gives it power too. Interesting. Now why did I throw away all those failed paintings?
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