How did these two collages happen?
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| Windmills I |
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| Windmills II |
Both collages started with a pair of scissors and two 9" x 12" printed papers I'd developed with my Palm Fronds Silhouette series. This series can be bought individually or together; they look like this--
Those two printed papers were created layer by layer, each layer a different color (heavy body acrylic paints). I turned the paper 90 degrees before adding each new coat of paint. This series of turns is what produced the crisscrossed lines in the two original printed papers, shown below --
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| Above: Notice that in the bottom layers I used translucent paints so that each color layer remained somewhat visible. The top yellow layer, however, was done in opaque acrylic paint. |
| Above: Again in the bottom layers of the central image, I used translucent paints so that each color layer remained somewhat visible. The top green layer, however, was done in opaque acrylic paint. |
I used some of those lines to guide my scissors as I cut the two papers into pieces.
It was fun assembling the pieces on a base of watercolor paper; I tried several variations --
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| Above: Windmills I in the first trial layout of papers. |
| Above: Windmills I in the second trial layout of papers. |
| Above: Windmills I in the last layout of papers -- the one I picked as the finalist (which you can see at the top of today's post). |
I still had plenty of scraps left so I decided to make a second collage ....
| Above: Windmills II in a trial layout of papers. The final collage appears above -- the second photo in today's post. |
Moving the papers around is called auditioning. As in the other kind of auditions, there will always be leftovers that didn't get chosen: not necessarily because I disliked them, but because each collage has its own "voice" and knows what pieces it wants included; and where to place them as a final choice; and which pieces to be set aside for another time.
I didn't recognize that "voice" with the early collages that I made, many years ago. For it to develop, I needed to take classes in composition ... and practice, practice, practice.
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