MY WORKSPACE TODAY
1/9/20 collage
2:14 PM: a little something was needed in the upper right corner of the collage I made yesterday. as well, I made a new one, much in the spirit of this new series thus far.
todays collage employs a section of a map of amsterdam as well as old paper palettes from paintings made in 2015. I labeled the palettes I saved, knowing i’d be using them at a later date. this particular one is form an ant Kate series painting titled parade. while making these collages there are several things i’m looking at and referring to. there are 3 photos of the icy creek I printed out, which help me discover the rhythm and distribution of the rocks, snow & ice in the creek. I switch up my materials, going from colored pencils & crayon and back to the collaged elements. I had been using gouache colors in the earlier collages, but lately it’s just pencils & crayons.
for anyone who is thrown or confused when they see the term abstract, if you take the time to explore my motion series, as well as the plein air paintings in oil & gouache that inspired them, you’ll get a clearer sense of how the reality we see is actually a series of forms in space, which our minds turn into something with familiar meaning.
BELOW: left is yesterdays collage before todays intervention; right: after. it works either way, really.
