WORK FROM COLLAGE VARIATIONS :TERM TWO

WORK FROM COLLAGE VARIATIONS :TERM TWO

We had an interesting time developing shape based compositions using collage, using  another artist’s work as our starting point.

Texture and how to describe it in collage became a focus too, and then that gave us license to be creative in how we then described that texture when we came to paint from the collage.

As we worked only in black and white for the collage , tone contrast and balance was important too.

Selection  and emphasis, as in deciding what was important in the composition for what we wanted to say, became a consideration.

In all, using collage was instrumental in helping us be more creative in our work.We got away from the names of what we were painting and saw instead the motifs in a  formal abstract way- as in point, line, shape, tone , texture and how we could manipulate these elements to create a balanced and strong composition with rhythm and interest.

Flapper

Wendy Selkirk had an interesting time developing a collage from the “Flapper” work and then doing her own painting based on the collage.It freed her up to find interesting ways of describing a setting for the figure , introducing pattern and   her own setting for her figure

Cheryl Stonex arrived at a dynamic composition using mixed media with tissue and its associated possibilities for transarency.As a reult of this term she discovered Robert Longo’s work which has inspired further figure compositions

Marion Kelly worked from Cezanne’s portrait and developed a strong  domestic portrait composition.

Margaret Hobb did a delightful composition with two figures and discovered many ways to describe texture in paint using collage and scraffito.

Susie Doogue used Bonnard( amongst others) as inspiration  to create a nude composition in paint adding collage elements into it .She created a  balanced composition with humour, movement  and narrative

Annette Pearton had a look at Hoppers genre scenes and made a work very much her own. Finding inventive ways to describe pattern  with glazing, gilding and mixed mediaBev Holdswoths dancing figures references Picassos bathers using strong verticals and horizontals to give structure to support the rhythm and texture .