It is a nice 24" x 28" simple gold frame in good condition so I need to fill it before it gets damaged in my cramped studio. My Beach Babes caught my fancy so I tried it over and over but it never developed so; "off with its head"!
Instead a vision of a mixed media drifted into my imagination. I covered the whole beach scene with gesso and began taping off black and red with gold designs. In China I picked up a newspaper thinking I could use it in some future mixed media painting.
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| Good News 2 Large sections of newspaper are hard to glue down smoothly and I felt the design needed some softness so I added some origami papers that I had on hand. Should I add painted designs in the background, should I ditch the pink, too much white looked boring were some of my questions. |
Next step is that I think there needs to be some linkage between the opposing black panels.
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| Good News 4 I added the neutral gray to focus the attention on the Chinese newspaper articles. Just awful! |
Now I find it boring and too fragmented. To balance the left hand side red I felt some red on the right would be in order. Searching the internet images I found a red tomb tower which proceeded to meticulously trace. I am trying for an old document over laid on the newspaper print.
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| Good News 5 This is no where near completion and I am really struggling. Not so happy with my comment; "Oh, just another problem to be solved". In frustration I ripped off the newspaper page and will attempt to draw a Chinese handmaid that I found in a brochure I brought home. I will use red to balance the red found on the left side of the collage. Oh, I added some red color to the flower to give it more punch.  If, per chance, you never see the final product you will know that it died a slow agonizing demise. http://www.verobeachartclub.org/index.php Artist Gallery koserme@gmail.com |
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