Mixed Media
I'm a big fan
of collage...not the kind where you cut out entire pictures and paste them down
on a big honking piece of poster board, and no, I'm not talking about "college"
for those of you with spelling issues. The type of collage that I do usually
involves breaking down an image into planes of color, texture, and tone. I usually
make the materials I collage with myself, by painting pieces of paper. I also
use interesting patterns that I find in magazines, newspaper, foil, cardboard,
and various sorts of paper; basically, whatever I feel like throwing in that
will give me the look that I am going for.
Recently, I
have been doing a lot of collage using fairly monochromatic materials. Most
of my current pieces use browns, blacks, and whites, but a few have a random
swatch of color or some metallic element thrown in. Some others are actually
pretty colorful, though, and I'm always exploring new possibilities. Hmmm...I
wonder how I got on this black white and brown kick...kinda unusual in the scope
of the rest of my work...
Some of the
pieces here are purely collage, others contain elements of drawing or painting.
Click on a thumbnail
to view a piece. Click again to close the piece.
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Cutout (This is a very personal, more obvious version of a non-representational piece I have yet to put up.
19"x36",
acrylic, masking tape and cardboard
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reinterpretation of a Degas dancer
12"x8",
oil pastel and paper
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"Health
Care," collage from which I did the drawing below...
4"x6",
cardboard, duct tape, paper, and magazine pages
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"Health
Care," as a drawing/mixed media piece
32"x48",
oil pastel, duct tape, and acrylic gloss medium
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Self-portrait
collage
8.5"x11",
wallpaper, paper, magazine pages, and leaves
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Collage
of my dormrooom
8.5"x11",
magazine pages
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DaVinci...
8.5"x11",
paint samples, masking tape, ink
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Fallback
8.5"x11",
cardboard, paper, foil, waxed paper, masking tape, electrical tape
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Bossa Nova
6"x7.5", paper
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