Tina - Lesson 6, Project 2 - Building Composition - Final Post

Monday, April 22, 2013

Tina - Lesson 6, Project 2 - Building Composition - Final Post

Finally, whatever begins must end. So it is with my adventure into abstract collage painting. After this experience, I am a new person. I see and do things differently now, and a whole world of possibilities are now open to me. Thank You. 

Here is the final assignment of Lesson 6 – Project 2: Building a Composition. 

Composition #1 – Full Sun. 9x9 watercolor paper, acrylics & paper collages.

This was study #3 for Depth and Atmosphere. I kept the background color as is, added self-made collages of circle, squares, and rectangle. The collage for the circle was cut from the paper palette with left over paint. Then I painted over the rectangle, added orange color and veiled white paint, and created the texture on the lower right quadrant with a plastic comb. I added the large black rectangle lines to balance out the orange-red circle. For variety of scales, I added small white squares, yellow circles, and the thin squiggly line (using brown Prismacolor Fine Line Marker 0.5) . To pull it all together, I glazed the piece with transparent primary yellow paint, which pulls the warm colors forward and pushes the cool color back.

Full Sun, 9x9

Composition #2 – Circles in triangle. 9x9 watercolor paper, acrylics & paper collage.

This is the #2 study for Depth and Atmosphere where the 3 circles in the triangle were previously painted over in blue. I cut circle collages from the palette papers used to mix paints and added them to this piece.  I added orange paint in different spots, white mesh texture on the left, script on the top right quadrant, and redraw the black triangle line to bring the triangle out. After I veiled the image with white, I glazed the piece with transparent primary yellow paint like in composition #1.

 

Circles in triangle, 9x9

Composition #3 – Open composition. 9x9 watercolor paper, acrylics & paper collage.  

This was study #1 for Depth & Atmosphere, the donut was the only prominent thing on that piece. I added paper collage from print magazine, used palette papers and sketches from my line studies. Then I added the blue honeycomb pattern (using a plastic template) on the bottom and small blue squares on the right edge (well it was intended to be squares!). They look heavy. So, I added the white mesh structure to soften them. I like the effect of the white mesh texture, I used them everywhere just for fun. 

 

Open Composition, 9x9

  There you have it. Watching Jane’s video really helped me with this last project. Now I know how to make my own collage papers and I'm loving it! Thank You, Jane for everything. See you around :-)