Extreme Composition Lesson 4 Collage

Lesson four is all about variety. How much variety can a composition take.? 

Using a variety of collage papers form a grid collage. Don't use the same collage piece twice.

Then using patterns made on transparent sheets try to connect the various elements. 

Collage I

22 x 33 cm

Collage II

22 x 33 cm

Collage III

22 x 33 cm

Used a variety of transparent papers: Thin plastic film, baking sheets, and wax paper.

Haven't been able to able to find tissue paper as yet. 

I have to be better organized. Have to have a bigger supply of options and then limit them.

Enjoyed the process, helped release pent-up energies. Not sure if the compositions work, they are still a bit fresh.

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

New Roads

This morning while checking my mail I opened Chris Lalley's blog and aside from her lovely painting was a quote that I really connected to.

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there."

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

I feel that I am traveling roads that I don't know where they are going, in hopes that they will take me to where ever I am going.I just hope I will know when I get there! Speaking of roads I have to mention Frost's beautiful poem The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

Yesterday I was feeling out of sorts. Maybe I was incubating something. Rested most of the day reading, watching TV, napping. In the evening felt up to tackling my dancing lines project. I had already cut them into four parts and they had been in my view all day.  The question rose, still in bed I remembered that at one time I had bought a small, and I mean small, set of gouache paints. They seemed a good choice for the situation, although I had never painted with them. I bought them in the anticipation of an artist that was to make a webinar on gouache that never materialized. So I took them out of their hiding place, took a few of my Rosemary Ivory brushes, and with a small jar of water on my side table went to work. It was a juggling act but worked itself out.

These are all  18 x 21 cm. Two I rotated and two were kept the same. Click to enlarge and view in the light box.

Bottom Left

Bottom right

Top Left

Top right

These are the four in  their correct positions

Reminder of where I started

before cutting

Hope to be traveling a new road some time today. May take them outside in the sun.