Thursday, April 20, 2017

Making Collage Papers and Collage

Making Collage Papers and Collage


Thanks for all your thought provoking comments on my last post.  I so much appreciate the discussion.  In the studio Ive been trying out new ideas, new ways of working with my materials, and valuing the "busy work" time I spend there.  Here is a video of me making collage papers from my "scrap paper", and then  one way Ive been approaching some new 4"x4" pieces.


Here are a few of the papers that came out of this session:

 Have fun making your own collage papers or re-purposing your scraps.  And here are a few of the 4"x4" collages I made using these and other papers:

Well, ho hum, but its a start.

This is actually my favorite, so I started making more painterly marks on my collage papers.  See how that goes, and maybe Ill post the results.




 Update on Summer Workshops

There are NINE spaces left in my workshop at Omega this summer.  
Expressive Abstract Painting: The Power of Process
July 5 - 10
Read about it here.
Register here.

There are FOUR spaces left in my workshop at Dillmans Bay Resort in Wisconsin.
Abstract Painting: Working in Multiples
September 13 - 18 (four teaching days)
Read about it and register here.


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