I am sitting here at my desk thinking about what I was going to type right now and this program is full screen on my PC monitor. That means I can see the first photo that is on this post on my right. I glanced at it and....started laughing. I admit I was more impressed with it at 3 am. LOL !! Late night does fun things to my mind. I am very creative in the night, but my brain reasons a little different when it's dark than it does in the daylight. I think that is why I love playing with my art at night.
(from a distance and not close up like this, this one somewhat looks like a night sky with an outcropping of rocks and pillars Click on it and then get up and run across the room and look at it)
Normally, I don't create on paper with the exception of in my play journals, which I do less and less of now it seems. At first I didn't understand them, then I thought I did, but I have about come full circle and don't understand them again. Hey ! I'm a woman... which means I have the inherent right to be wishy washy....right ??? ha ha...
I normally end most of my evenings at my art table doing something. It could be creating a new piece, making new papers, sorting out papers and organizing stuff.... anything really.
Thursday night I had no plan for the next real creation, but I had wanted to try some paint colors together and a few other tiny techniques. I have a container on one corner of my desk that is full of paper of all kinds. Between the kinds I have bought and the pages from various types of books I have purchased just for that, there is always a variety at hand's reach.
My area had gotten over crowded, so I relocated my books to another room earlier this week and in the process, I made sure to tear out some pages from some of them to put in my paper box.
So, Thursday night I pulled a few papers, one at a time and played with some paint. I expected that I would keep whatever I did to tear up and use as collage paper later. Here are a few messes I mean papers that came out of my random playing that night.
Here are some more....
Last night when I got to my table, there I was with the new papers I could use for collage. There had been no plan to use them immediately, but there they lay close at hand.
Also normally for me, I will only create the small to very small collages on paper. If there is any size to them, they always go on a firm substrate, wrapped canvas or canvas board or on a very rare occasion a cradle board.
But last night.....
Last night though I think I started channeling another unknown artist....because there I was with the random new papers and my brain told me to create right there on the paper! What ??? NO! what if I make a masterpiece and there it is on a flimsy, smoothly warping paper?? Then what ??
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Yes, I know there are many artist that create on paper because it is cheaper and then if they make something they love, they just glue it or mount it some way to a solid substrate later. I am not judging that, but you have to know that if you have something you really like and then you have to alter it in some way with more paint or glue, you do take the chance of ruining it as although many times it works just fine, even that simple process can go horribly wrong in the last seconds.
So, for the good or the bad of my art, if it is important to me and if I have good hope, I always want to create on solid surfaces.
I made the one that was at the first of this post. Mainly, I just added the torn yellow bits from the outside of one of the other new papers and added them to the paint that was already there. Then the other artist said "don't cut off the bottom, leave the music exposed and still include it." What the heck?.... but ok, I did it and at midnight it looked magical.
Then there was this.....also on a music sheet...and the other art entity kept saying "yes, yes!... keep going... it's artsy !"
..... and then this one....The rectangle and largest circle were not papers from the night before, but the background of course and the smaller center circle were.
They were all quite messy, but the other art entity kept saying...."it's artsy!"
I wonder who that was who told me in the middle of the night it was ok to do this.
I don't know the answer to that.
It was nearly 4 am and there were still papers. I laid out the pieces below, but decided I would glue them to a canvas board today. I liked the design and colors and that it was a bit grungy.
I sometimes like the way some of the papers lay together before they are glued down. They show a depth that is lost sometimes once they are flat. I haven't tried it yet, but I have toyed with the idea of laying something out like this and then taking each piece and making it stiff with glue or whatever and maybe not flat on the edges when it is drying and then gluing them together so the whole piece is not flat. It would open them up for possible damage later and they really could not be stored stacked for the same reason, but I still might have to play with that idea in the future. Until then I know I could always go in after it is flat with some thin black paint and add in some shadowing, but again, if you like the papers and arrangement a lot, adding paint in any way adds the possibility of totally ruining what is there already.
Delimas, delimas...
Last, I share this accidental photo just for the fun of it. My phone has a habit of taking photos when I don't ask it too. It is really bad about that, so after I took a photo and was moving the phone over, it took another while my hand was still moving.
Vwa-LA !
This post was a lot of drivel for one day, so I will stop now and go get the dishwasher running so I can pretend I am doing something valid. Tomorrow I will show you some more art I have made when I was only channeling myself. LOL !!
