Digital collages

So with this whiplash-inducing change in the weather I'm feeling hot and lazy. What better way to make art during a heat wave than to sit at the computer next to the lovely air conditioning vent? I made these out of scans from my train book and some sewing and knitting directions and diagrams. I notice that my colors suddenly got quite a bit brighter - partly because of the source scans and partly because of the weather, I guess.

Some pretty for your Wednesday

Making treasuries is a good way to avoid going outside where it's gone from March to July in a couple days. I love hot weather and summer but I need a little time to acclimate. Anyway, here's some lovely things that I think have fantastic compositions.

Poppytalk Handmade Oil Spill Fundraiser

This month, Poppytalk Handmade market is holding a fundraiser for the oil spill in the Gulf. I'm participating along with a lot of other fantastic shops and artists. Everyone is donating items and there's some great stuff - go check it out! And I'm delighted to be involved in such a great cause...it's good to feel like I'm helping out in some small way.

Happy 4th!

I've been offline and out of the studio quite a bit lately, between migraines and a sick horse. I think we're both on the mend, though.

Hope everyone's having a good 4th of July! Or if you're not in the US I'll just wish you a happy Sunday :) My evening will be spent reassuring the animals that war has not broken out and it's just fireworks.

Smallish collages

These little guys are 5x7" with all the same materials as the last two. I wanted to do some smaller collages to play with the scale of the text/diagram pieces and I like how they turned out.

I think these give me a chance to just play with composition and not have to spend so much time as the drawings.

Also collage

This is the next collage - same watercolor/pencil/gouache/prints and similar feel.

Making collages is a little more intuitive than drawing and painting. But honestly I just sort of look at what I've put down and start waving my hands around and try to get a feel for where I want to put something next on drawings and collages both :) I often draw in the first figural part of a drawing and don't really love the composition, so I change it up a bit with the diagram-y stuff that I put in last.

Oh, and I realized that if I take a photo with my phone camera of my collage before I have to move anything to glue it down, I can actually put everything where I originally intended.

Collage

I did some collaging over the weekend. I'm trying to keep it cohesive with the other pieces and I think it's actually working :)

This collage is similar to the ones I was doing last summer where I scanned and printed out old magazine photos and used them instead of the original piece of paper. This time I'm using the same book and knitting pattern as the other digital collages and paintings so I hope it reads as part of the same batch of work. I've got watercolor on cold press paper, gouache on hot press paper, pencil lines, and then the printed pieces which I printed out larger than the original scale.