I am choosing to occasionally take a day off – an option I didn’t allow myself for years when I started this project. Really, I am again trying to make more time to tackle bigger projects and finish up other ones. The collages are still out on my worktable; I am figuring out ways of framing them up to display at the Harmony Collective gallery in the next month or two.
Just so you can have a picture, here’s a little mockup that I thought might make a nice little t-shirt or something, with some cats I painted last year.
I am still struggling with adjusting to the clock change (don’t get me started ranting about how stupid the twice-annual imposed ritual is!). I went to a lovely pub sing, far out in the Massachusetts hilltowns after work this day, and had a sweet visit with some old friends who used to be closer neighbors before I moved to Vermont. I got back home at nearly 11:00 New Time, and rather than check in to the studio, decided to go straight to bed in hopes of readjusting my personal clock toward getting up earlier in the morning. It sort of worked, I’ll try again tonight.
Just fyi, all my daily art is on 9″ x 12″ stonehenge paper. I settled on that as a manageable size and sufficiently versatile weight and texture of paper, years ago. So that’s one variable off the table when I sit down to play.
I think this is the last collage I’ll post for this round. It was the result of a happy accident of colors and shapes in the scraps that were left on my worktable.
Here’s a quick goofy one. The base picture was an arresting image of a fellow in mask and body paint. The feet belong to the nuns that were in day-before-yesterday’s post. The doily and sculpture were to bring the colorway together. Unlike yesterday, I did not then spend a lot of time adding little bits in hopes of making the whole thing more interesting. Part of my challenge is knowing when to quit.
I think maybe I could have stopped when this one was quite simple; it pleased me then. But I started adding more stuff, and ran out of time & energy while it was (is) still in this intermediate, not-quite-resolved state. But I think I’m going to let it go, and leave it where it is.
There are still a couple of pages of ideas waiting to be added to and glued down before this year’s collaging is over.
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