Collage, Organisation, Process
A birthday, two new cut-out stamps. I'm making smaller circles from my tax disk collection and also cutting up the Korean financial times, wth a stamp-shaped cutter. Problem is, when you discover a new tool like this, you want to make stamps and shapes out of everything. These two are sketchbook scans, may go further with the financial times stamps... en mass. ?
Collage, Organisation, Process, Sketchbook, Studio
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Still thinking about how great this weekend was, full-on-studio-time. So good to commit days and elongated hours to it, not just snatching some time here and there, or never going at all. I completed six frames, started and finished - ready to hang. That's never happened! On top of that I created a couple of collages, and wrote lots of notes in my sketchbook. Completely productive and fulfilling!Here's some of the scanned sketchbook pages: Don't know where this came from in my head, but I like it. Poo Bin / Camping. Using unwanted photographs and a nice thin pen. These two go hand in hand. You know when you're in multitasking flow, and you have things going on in different areas of the place you're working in, and things like this just appear out of you? No? I didn't either - that's why this weekend was so great!
Intricate, time-consuming drawing. Using china markers, a grey/lilac colored pencil and some un-watered down water colour paint. I might say that this is the start of a project, I want to create a body of work to exhibit next year, possibly at one of the Bristol open studio events, or one of the Arts Trails. Every piece will be in the same vein as this one - an accumulation and a collection of hours, doing the drawings little and often, each piece will hold around ten hours of my time, spread over around a month. Little and often. Little and often.
Stone paintings: some stones left over from knocking down a massive wall. Like an attractive paper weight, and a good surface to work with. This one ain't done, I want to fill it with lots of lines, like a precise Davenport!
Poppies: after collecting them for years and years, I'm at stage one of experimenting with my collected poppy petals (thousands) but this trial looked a bit Ikea - not quite what I'm going for, but maybe people would purchase?
Inky shower door: Better than glass because it's got edges you see. Like my glue mould work from a couple of years back, I'm not working in ladles any more, but instead I'm using the flat surface. working with Drawing inks and clear glue (not pva!) I'm going to be adding lots to this. It takes a long long time to dry, so it's another ongoing thing.
Tax disks, another thing I've collected long-term. Scavenged from scrap yards, it's about time I got them out and made something with them. I'll start by plonking them on my desk.
