WATERCOLOR/COLLAGE 132, 19 1/4x191/4” as it looked at the end of my painting day today
4:08 PM: so if you read yesterdays blog, you’ll recall that i wasn’t yet sure about cutting up watercolor-collage 131 today. i did.
it had beautiful bits, but the composition was a little choppy. after cutting it up, i plac3s the pieces in a cardboard box, along with other pieces of cut-up paper, maps and paper palettes. i spent the day selecting and attaching many of those pieces to the square, white, acid-free cardboard surface.
i won’t be in my studio tomorrow, so lets see how i feel about what i did tuesday morning. then i’ll make my decision as to whether it’s resolved, or needs more work.
watercolor/collage 132 is in the sprirt of 130 and 131. there is no overlapping, as there was in the last series of collages i made. the whimsicality of the composition, which has so much breathing space, belies the precision of the underlying architecture. the curvilinear shapes in the pieces of maps, which indicate changes of altitude, echo the shapes of the cut out pieces of watrecolors, paper palettes, etc. plant and animal life can be projected onto these shapes, individually and in concert with one another.