Snake Plant #2

Continueing with oils and collage work. This snake plant was based on #27, one of the paintings I did for the January 30 x 30 challenge, larger with a new twist... I really had to sit on my hands and not add any coloring, at Heleni's suggestion. Really don't know where orange came from. Maybe from the other side of the newsprint that I peeled away

40 x 30 cm

Wrapped Canvas

Newsprint Collage with charcoal sketch

Before I peeled the sketch

Snake Plant Collage

I really enjoyed doing the collage for workshop project. I love collages but never really thought of it as a media that I could connect to. During the challenge I met a great collage artist Hannah Klaus Hunter and was so inspired by her work I felt I had to give it a try. I don't have collections of fabrics, papers and other stuff, just plain newspint,so off I go. I  thought that the snake plant would be a good subject because of its simple shapes.This was done directly on the grey cardboard. I taped all the edges because the cardboard tends to fray. Background oils , leaves and planter newsprint  with caran d'ache crayon and some oil pastel drawings.

Snake Plant Collage

37 x 37 cm

Newsprint with crayons and oils

Here are some of the stages of this painting.

Rough Graphite Sketch

Chico likes my painting

or maybe just

the chair

Painted background with 

leaves pasted

Metamorphosis

Strange name and strange painting. I can't count the many stages and layers did. It changed so many times.  I find myself really struggling with oils and cold wax..... and abstracts not related to any reference material.  Heleni feels that my best works have some basis in a reference even when I do them abstractly. She may be right, but I am not going to give up so quickly.

This was done on a gessoed cardboard.  Oils and cold wax scratching etc.  Really don't know if its finished so I am posting.  Welcome any suggestions or critique.

35 x 35 cm 

Oils and Cold Wax

Gessoed Cardboard.