Dear reader,

Today I made another collage – all of the same scraps of the old blue-green painting. I now have made three postcards of them (and could make many more). What I find interesting is the difference between the ‘torn borders’ (can you say that?) and the cut borders. I think they make a beautiful contrast.

Bye!

Dear reader,

As you probably know, I am often inspired by the American painter Nancy Hillis. She gives an assignment that goes something like this: Take a piece of paper, draw six squares on it, and make six marks on each.

And so I did.

I took a piece of second-hand copy paper, took out a few tools. You can see them below.

Then randomly started to make marks. No thinking involved, just doing. I really enjoyed, and in the meantime, I learned to make some new marks along the way.

I first did as Nancy said (putting six boxes on a piece of paper), later I just took six separate sheets of paper, to have more space.

There is a lot to say about this; I will write a more elaborate blog about this later.

Bye! (below you see the photos of the tools I used and the seven examples of mark making studies)

Dear reader,

I have grown really fond of collage making. It is different from painting – you don’t work with brushes so much, you have less the sensory experience of wet pain for instance. But still: I can get completely lost in it. So much fun!

In this painting I like how the black and white marks go together well, making a big contrast.

bye!

Dear reader,

Today I found a new piece of collage paper (again: an old painting), and I started playing with it. I liked the process. Which is not so much painting ‘freely’, but more careful seeking a composition. It all happens very intuitively though. I love the stripes, the circles, and the ink splashes.

Bye!

Dear reader,

Today I made another postcard. I usually don’t use such primary colors in my paintings. Quin Gold is always dominant – not today 😉

Bye!

Simone