COLLAGE: noun or verb? Day 21
Thank you so much for joining me on this trip through my world of collage.
COLLAGE: noun or verb? Day 20
Collage has been a remarkable journey for me, taking me to so many interesting ideas. Collage offers so many possibilities in materials, surfaces, adhesive methods, and artistry.
COLLAGE: noun or verb? Day 19
When I punch holes, I try to use the paper effectively punching in long lines. These strips of paper are the waste product of that process. As they accumulate in the trash bin, my mind started to see collage possibilities.
COLLAGE: noun or verb? Day 17
Magazine paper is tricky to work with. It is thin and easily saturated with adhesive, getting soggy, ripping and smearing the colour.
COLLAGE: noun or verb? Day 16
Remember the large irregular shapes that I began to tuck into one another in the piece “Green Tangle”?
COLLAGE: noun or verb? Day 15
This piece began with an oceanography map that was given to me by a friend.
COLLAGE: noun or verb? Day 14
Why Circles?
When I began large scale collages, I used a variety of shapes.
COLLAGE: noun or verb? Day 13
As an artist, one piece is often not enough to completely explore an idea.
COLLAGE: noun or verb? Day 12
During the pandemic and isolation, I hear many artists communicate their struggle with lack of inspiration. That’s because social interactions lead to inspirations in Art.
COLLAGE: noun or verb? Day 8
I have always been fascinated by the different qualities of paper; the transparency, the luminosity, the texture, the colour gradations.
COLLAGE: noun or verb? Day 7
Assemblages are collages that are made by assembling disparate elements, often everyday objects.
COLLAGE: noun or verb? Day 6
This piece would be considered in the genre of ‘mixed media’. While it has collage elements in it, the piece also uses paint, sharpies and gel pens.
COLLAGE: noun or verb? Day 5
Seeing is a learned thing.
Artists need to learn to see edges, values and relationships.
COLLAGE: noun or verb? Day 4
As a collage artist, I am looking for connections, finding comparisons and using my full stock of artistic elements.
COLLAGE: noun or verb? Day 3
This small collage is one that I might think of as a “pure collage”. It has no materials other than paper, there is no surface painting or preparation to the surface before collaging.
COLLAGE: noun or verb? Day 2
Collage artists tend to act like squirrels, gathering materials and caching them away for their artwork.