Today’s page, I had to make an effort to get round to doing it, some days are harder. But I know have to keep going as once I miss a day, i come to a full stop. So I picked the first piece of paper at the top of my box of bits, then kept going with transparent layers. #dailysketchbook#collage#tissue
Abstract collage in colours of green, brown and grey. Marks are like lichen and illegible lettering. Some vertical green lines like growth. A feeling of depth, definitely in the wild landscape near home.
Some pieces are hard to describe, but I keep trying!
Torn pieces of paper, some painted and some with handwritten notes. Fragmented so the word are illegible. Colours of dark blue, copper and orange.lots of contrast. this one is very much abstract, not sure what it is about?
Abstract torn papers, dark blue, greys and brown. Textured painted papers including tissue tp get transparent layers. Light on water, mottled rocks, distant views.
7 overlapping pieces of paper offset and each with a painted lower edge, forming a series of horizontal lines in greys/browns/ochres. One vertical line of dark grey machine stitch to secure.
Collage with masking tape added, then a wash of watercolour, resulting in an unintentional bit of de-collage where pieces ripped off the surface when removing the tape. Sometimes things don't work the way you think. #dailysketchbook#collage#decollage
Messy collage of tissue paper pieces in greys and blues. Some ripped areas.
My, uh, "art project" over a year in the eating. I thought these happy little enchilada characters on the Night Hawk "Fiesta" enchilada frozen meals were pretty great, so I started cutting them out and putting them on one of our kitchen cabinets as a lark.
One thing led to another and pretty soon I was trying to eat particular colors to make this gradient. Finally got it transfered to cardboard. Enjoy!
Background is one piece of paper shaped a bit like a standing stone, it is blue-grey with rough diagonal resist marks in cream. Three narrow pieces on top are on top are roughly horizontal, but angled up with energy and overlap off the left edge. There are fragments of text and a wide variety of papers including a little gold.
Sketchbook work today, made a collage, cut pieces out and laid over a different background. #dailysketchbook#collage#art
Torn papers including some pieces of a thesaurus with text. Three vertical apertures cut away in elongated asymmetric teardrop shapes, with a darker marked paper laid behind.
Paper collage on the back of a trading card. In the background and foreground are sections of an old book illustration of the constellation. Ursa Major’s long-tailed body is in front of an illustration of a smiling lingerie-clad woman from a Life Magazine mattress add. In the background we can see the text “XVI. URSA.” Behind the woman on the left is a colorful NASA x-ray spectrum image of the sun.
A mini challenge today, set by some friends, working when looking in a mirror. Quite tricky to arrange pieces and of course working upside down and reversed.it was so hard not to glance down at the page, I had to set something in between so I couldn't see it except in the mirror. You know as soon as you think ‘must not look’ it is impossible not to… Or is that just me? #collage#dailysketchbook#artchallenge
7 square or rectangular torn pieces of painted paper in blacks and greys with a little blue. Near the centre there is a line of rough dots, fingerprints in blue on tissue. Makes me think of a line of trees or hedgerow in fields, but abstract.
Scribble stitching in black over torn pieces of paper bearing fragments of handwriting and 2 postage stamps with postmarks. Pieces I can almost read say: 1883, FC Corfield, for you, keen to...most of the rest is illegible. Postmark says BATAL, India, and postage was two and a half annas.
Every day making sketchbook work is so helpful to me. Some days it is the only art I make, but other days I get in the studio to work on bigger pieces. Not happening much at the moment though. So my sketchbook keeps me going. Looking out of the house today at the stone walls and hillside beyond #dailysketchbook#collage#landscape#abstract#dumfriesandgalloway#cairnharrow
Torn papers painted in blues, greens, turquoise, greys. A horizontal band of rough stone shapes in the foreground, with smoother calmer pieces beyond in the shape of the hill. A little pop of a far distant view beyond a high ridge.
Torn pieces of painted papers, abstract but with a feeling of arranged forms and distance. Or maybe rocky landscape, which is in most of my work. Colours are a range of greys with a little yellow and orange.
Abstract piece with muted colours of grey, green, blues and a little acid yellow. Scraped lines in the textured papers. Mainly horizontal blocks, overlapping and irregular layers, some semi transparent pieces.
Long horizontal rectangle with a rough orange and white surface. At center is a giant 1950s nautical-style mantle clock with a dark brown wood case. A faint landscape is viewable in the distance. A young 1950s man leans over the clock and gazes rightward at a "flying saucer made of a 1920s or 1930s Art Deco moonstone brooch. Some birds fly in the background beneath it. Trim: a camo-like strip of similar colors at the base and at the right.