Celebration Boogie

Fooling around in my sketchbook again. I taped off these areas and used a limited palette of red-orange, orange, and blue green with china marker, white paint stencil, and tissue paper transparencies.

Genie

I am working with an 8"x5" watercolor sketchbook now, because the notebook that was recommended does not work well for me. Maybe for some other form of art, but for my paper collages it is just not heavy enough. 
 

Experimenting

Phthalo Turquoise, Cadmium Orange, a red crayon, and fluid acrylic in white and Phthalo Turquoise.

Playing in the Studio Again

Fun, fun fun! Inspired by Adele Sypesteyn's video.

Mountain Road Collage (after Andre Derain)

This 9"x12" collage is pinned up on my studio wall, so you can make out the edges of the clear push pins if you look closely. I enjoyed putting this together and I see how the dark lines accentuate the bright colors, and the composition is delightful.

Here is the reproduction of Derain's painting (also seen in an earlier post):

More Tiny. Journal Pages

For some reason, I stopped adding the black marks to some of these spreads. I think they look better without it. I don't know if that is a permanent change or not.

Wonder

Once again, I based the colors in a collage on a painting from the Fauves era. This one is by Braque, called "Paysage a la Ciotat" or Landscape at Ciotat. The shapes feel like they are bouncing around and excited about something, in awe and wonder. This spread is in the 8"x5" notebook.

Mail Carrier on Horseback

This collage is based upon a recent dream, in which I was buying a cabin in the woods, and the mail carrier arrived on horseback to deliver a postcard on a piece of bark.
 

Glittery Grunge

I put in the backgrounds from gel printing papers I had on hand, and yesterday I put shapes onto them. It is a bit raggedy but it gives me pleasure to look at it.

More Zing!

This green spread was fairly restrained, so I added the red-orange collage materials, plus the stamp and magazine photo to give it a bit of a boost.

Teensy-Weensy Collage Journal

I am having a lot of fun doing these spreads. I begin with a small cut-out portion of a gel print I have made. Then I collage another piece of a gel print in a shape, usually in a complementary color. Finally I collage in some black marks that are painted on tissue paper transparency sheets. Very enjoyable! I use these sketchbooks for developing ideas, trying out techniques, and just keeping my studio practice consistent. I used the little clamps to keep the pages open and flat.

New Journal

 This journal is 8" x 5" and I am working in it using glue sticks and acrylic medium only on the side that is being glued down. I am hopeful this will reduce the sticky factor.

Sketchbook completed?

 It is hard to say if this sketchbook is finished. I keep doing things and then thinking Ooh that might look good on other pages.  I think the next sketchbook I will work on only one page, instead of in spreads, because that way I will have to contend with less stickiness. Now both sides are sticky, and they want to glue themselves together.

Mountain Road Geometric Collage

 Collage in small (8"x5") sketchbook, colors based upon Andre Derain's painting "La Route dans la Montagne"
(Mountain Road).

L'Estaque Collage

This piece is 9"x12" collage, from Georges Braque,  L'Estaque, 1906. I am working on doing abstract landscape, using collage.

Reproduction of Braque's painting from a book on Fauvism.

Old Walls with Fragments of Posters

 This spread may or may not be finished. 

Circus!

 For some reason, this spread makes me think of the circus.

Sun and Moon Spread

These are so much fun! This spread expresses my delight in the physical world with its many faces.

Freshening Up

These two were early attempts at painting in combination with collage in this sketchbook, and I was not pleased with the results. Today I added deli paper with painted circles in black fluid acrylic, and I think it improved them both considerably.

Updated Brownie

This page was a little blah so I added some black marks. I made the marks on artist's tissue that was coated thinly with gloss medium.

Zen Spread

 

Blue-Green and Brown-Ochre

 

This sketchbook constantly evolves; it is very exciting for me. On the left I had the greenish pattern, and on the right the yellow and tan swirls. I forgot to let them both dry enough and they stuck together. Because of that I put more collage items on top of what I had. I like them both even better now. One of those happy accidents, I guess.

Value Check

I worked on this collage today to change the values. I darkened the blue-violet areas, added some lighter green pieces in the green on the right side, and added some golden brown to make the bright yellow pieces less uniformly rectangular. I made a duplicate in my phone using snapseed, and made it black and white to ascertain what the range of values is. The brown of the logs is too close in value to the golden brown of the rocks, so I will carefully darken them (I think). 

Houston Arboretum II In Process

 Fallen logs in a shallow stream with rocks along its bank.