the truth.
this is probably my last collage for this time around, I have the supplies mostly sorted and ready to store for next year. Thanks to Stephanie Luck Coïc for sending me an inspirational packet of materials, and to all the friends and relations that participate in my annual collage get-together. It never fails to surprise and motivate me.
The February collage party came a little late this year, but it came nevertheless. Here’s the one piece I managed to finish during the party, but expect more to come in the next few days as I sort paper and tidy the studio up again. Thanks to the late George Thomas, from whose studio archives I got the tracing of a perspective study which forms the basis for the collage.
Here is the Group Collage that came out of this year’s party. Nine people contributed to this effort. Plus a few more that were there in spirit.
No drawing for today, but I finished painting and hanging new street signs. So I submit these photos as proof of studio time.
questing journey
I’m listening to Tolkien’s Fellowship of the Ring as read by Andy Serkis. Though I’ve read the trilogy a couple of times to myself, and read it out loud to others two times, I’ve never had it read to me and I am enjoying it. This drawing doesn’t have any specific relation to the book, but I’m pretty sure the sense of travel and adventure, with a fair does of discomfort and danger, is leaking over into my art.
this one is from 11-18-24, but I tidied up the paint in studio, and tidied it up some more in digital form, so this is the current state of the print-ready picture. The image from my original post is below; I wonder if the cleanup is a good thing or not, it seems to take out some of the life but satisfies a strong urge I have for tidiness.
my process on this one? I have had “portrait” orientation as a default for a long time. If the thought of “landscape” crosses my mind when I look at the paper, I turn it right then. Usually. This time, I said nope, and the very next image in my mind was a giraffe-like creature that would not fit comfortably unless the paper was tall. Sadly for me, the creature came out more like a giraffe than like what I had in my mind, but for today this will have to do.
after an image behind my eyelids as I lay sleepless the other night.
As leavening, here are two paintings I have updated enough to put them away for now.
Away from studio today, doing a painting project for a friend – decorating her Sukkah. A beautiful structure, in a beautiful spot!
more progress on the ATCs, no regular daily art.
Almost done with these things, I hope to be back on my usual art routine this evening!
i ended up spending my studio time getting started on my Artist Trading Cards for the October swap (I’m late!!) They’re based on an older daily art that I’m still working on, so I included that in the photo as well.
Here’s another view of my worktable, just for j=fun
And below is a photo of my current display at Harmony Collective Artist Gallery. I started a couple months ago to start doing a sort of long term retrospective. Starting with 2013, I’m showing selected daily drawings on the wall and putting more of them (the less-polished ones) in the bin below. I’ve gotten up to April, May and June of 2013.
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