Making by Hand Collage WIP I

I am experimenting doing collages with oils and cold wax. These are done mainly in my weekly workshop. Sometimes I paste the pieces on at home and then work on it at my weekly workshop.
In this piece, I am using cuts from my RISD alumni bulletin.  I forgot to take a photo of the collage pieces before applying paint so the first image is with the gray background color,
Previous collages: Reflections and Diptych Collage.

Oils & Cold Wax Collage  I

WIP

Oils and Cold Wax

Start with Background color

Reflections

I always look forward to receiving my RISD alumni bulletin. The minute I opened this winters issue I knew that I would use the cover for my next collage, The issue is mainly to do with self-reflections. In the January 30 x 30 I tried somehow to reach my inner self, sometimes succeeding and sometimes not. That is one faction of self-reflection.

I quickly tore up the pieces and randomly glued them to a piece of cut canvas, from my storehouse of cut canvases Traudi gives me when she trims from her roll of canvas,  Then in class, I started painting and then realized I hadn't taken a photo of the first stage.  Luckily I found the RISD site for these bulletins and found the cover. If you want to read the issue here is the link.

Cut Canvas 39 x 47 cm

Oils & Cold Wax

Collage

WIP?

Cover RISD XYZ

Winter 2017

Portrait of the artist 22 x 17" by Shahzia Sikander

one of four etchings published by Pace Editions

What attracted me to this print were the colors, grays and yellows, and the abstract quality of the marks. Found some other elements in the issue, mainly pasting them to the left side of the canvas.

Don't know if this is finished, but I do like this stage. Will bring it into class next week.