Today is day 1 of my december 2015 collage diet challenge.
Studio is a serious mess as I am cutting and cutting like a mad woman and I am extremely self-concious about sharing the works again. I had a hard time getting started (nervous) and was not happy with how the first piece started but then I convinced myself that these are ideas in progress and it is ok if I share what I think is a mess-up or repetitive.
The odd thing is that I already see my lines are changing and I am baby stepping into creating small patterns. I am also spending more time on selecting cut-outs. The pieces for works on paper are more meticulously vetted since they don’t blur into the textured background as on the canvas work. Sometimes I cut 10 to 15 shapes to get to something that I think works. The cut-out needs to have a a good amount of character and texture and an interesting form to work with. so here are the first 4 in order as they happened.
96 more to go!
