My Journey

Saturday, April 24, 2021

Status Quo

Tatu has gained 2 more layers after a critique and suggestions. Not each layer covers the whole substrate, just another color application or reduction. Subdued the word, TATU took out some marks and in the end subdued the conflict between the words and black marks on the right-hand side. Killed a section from the under collage that I really liked so that the rest would work together. Giving it a new name and putting it aside. For now finished, but maybe later may still edit. Open options.

Status Quo
14" x 20"
Collage
Oils and Cold Wax

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

TATU

One of the guest speakers that inspired me a few weeks ago on our live sessions at Cold Wax Academy, Sara Post. She showed a technique that really caught my attention. She works with collage in a novel concept. Not adding collage to a painting in progress but starting with a substrate where collage pieces were glued and using paint in a reductive way. Cool. After doing one, I started 3 more and decided that this will become a series.

Collage

Cold Wax layers, oil sticks,

Mark Making

My new Favani organic paper various colors 350gm

Squeegee, brayer, palette-knife +

Limited Palette

TATU

Mainly art papers I made with acrylic with my Gelli Pad. Some on transparent papers and some using newspaper as a substrate. Made a coat of gloss media between the collage pieces before mark-making and added oils with cold wax. This allows me to go back to the first collage layer.

The word TATU was part of another word that came from a huge newspaper I got from an exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum about Jerusalem Called Status Quo. It has no real meaning on its own, just a mark or shape. Don't know if this is really finished will put aside awhile.