Dear reader, Today I made another postcard, still from the same scraps. I started with marks with a very thick pencil. What I noticed that how every move you make makes a crucial difference regarding to how the collage works out. One stroke of pencil-marks...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
Dear reader, I have long been thinking about what I should offer new followers of my blog. Thanks to Dotty Seiter I was able to nail down exactly what I wanted: an incentive to start art making Right Now. Not postpone it until you have the perfect supplies,...
Dear reader, Is there life after Quinacridone Nickel Azo Gold? I doubt it! Yesterday I finished a series of collage postcards that I made from scraps of one particular old painting. It is gone now, so I had to take another one. I dived into the drawer,...
Dear reader, Today I used the last scraps of one piece of collage paper that I have been using the last few days. So tomorrow I will have to dive again in the catacombs of the drawer with old paintings. I didn't add any Indian Ink or white marker today. At a...
Dear reader, Today I continued working where I left last Friday. I started to work the (artist quality) color pencil. I would never have thought that I would like them that much! The fact that they are artist quality makes a difference. I always thought color...