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.
How did you ever learn about him? In school?
ReplyDeleteYou've got something very visually powerful here - hope you do more.
ReplyDeleteCollage 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?
ReplyDeleteThese are fairly crude Mr. Kingfisher. Technically I don`t know anything about collage. I`m using a reversible neutral ph glue called Nori.
ReplyDeleteDitto re Romare Bearden. I like the process you describe of taking such time to find your composition. It has worked well!
ReplyDeleteI 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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