Lately

The color and pattern collages are still interesting to me. Composing with paper alone is so different than mixing color. I like the immediacy and freedom it offers. The tendency I have is to create an abstracted realism, so I'm focusing a bit more on abstraction. I always seesaw between these choices. I find the most freedom in pure abstract drawing in my sketchbooks. The drawing project is teaching me at least one thing very clearly: make at least one drawing every day no matter what. It's SO easy to find a reason not to draw! And they are valid, those reasons...but I find if I do it anyway I do get somewhere.

Color & Pattern

Here are the latest color & pattern collages I've done. They have become what I do for my daily drawing project. I am really interested in the way I can use paper just like paint. I'm discovering many new things about color. One of my Flickr friends suggested a book I've been reading....Spirit of Color, by Connie Smith Siegel. It has an interesting approach to using collage to explore color.

Color & Pattern

Okay...so my blog has been dormant for awhile. I have been working on lots of things so I've had no time to blog. I've decided this space needs a makeover...badly. So that is what will happen next month. Meantime, these are some color and pattern collage studies I've been doing that have evolved out of the drawing project I've beeen working on since January 1.