I never thought I would work in series, but sometimes they happen, if you can call two a series. Maybe I should call the pieces fraternal twins. A few months ago I made a kindergarten style house mask and painted around it on old music sheets and a watercolor. Back in the paper stack they went until I was searching for diversion from a quilting problem.
When I shuffled through my collage papers and found them I decided to develop home themes without any idea other than the classic inverted V roof outline. I had a grand time painting sort of solid colors on Bristol boards. While they dried I sifted through my collage bits and pulled out elements I thought might work, with an emphasis on color.
The yellow ochre one features roof lines, and gel plate transfer prints on tissue paper. I added birds’ nests as a secondary feature, but was mostly concerned with color and composition.
The blue one took a hard swerve into fantasy land with carpets of flowers, balloons, and the American Gothic couple. The balloons are from color copies I printed of the circle/oval quilt I wrote about last week. As in “Getting The Point,” I got into windows again. I must have cut out every photo of a window I came across.
In case you wonder, these are mixed media pieces as they involve paint, pens, and crayons.
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The row of shovels, the tattered curtains — what secrets are that couple keeping?!
That is one thing I love about your work — there are always elements that allow the viewer to come up with different interpretations, and that encourages longer viewing time to really study the piece.
Maybe I need a short story to go with the piece. Or I could have viewers write a sentence describing what they think is happening. That might be fun.
I think that would be great! And maybe it would give you a psychological profile on your viewers…:)
I could charge good money for that. Or maybe I could ask viewers to write the next sentence of a story about the piece.
So good! I can imagine your brain wheels turning as you designed and constructed this pieces – fun but challenging, I’d guess. Wonderful results. More and more I’m loving mixed media collage.
It’s like improv work, but you construct a narrative in addition to a work that hangs together compositionally.
Very good explanation… like I said “challenging”!
But fun when you have lots of photo images.