Here are a few examples from a series of collages I’ve been experimenting with based on various motifs from my paintings. It makes a change to be able to end up in an afternoon with several finished pieces, contrary to what I usually do these days, which involves working on the same painting over a couple of weeks. Years ago I mostly prefered to start & finish a piece the same day. Since those days perhaps I’ve learnt to be a little more self disciplined & more persistant (okay , not always & not with everything!) Of course there isn’t a right or wrong approach – just diffrerent I suppose.
Quelques petits collages
Voici quelques exemples d’une serie de collages que j’ai fait qui se sont inspirées des motifs de mes tableaux. Cela fait du bien de finir plusieurs petits oeuvres dans un après midi au lieu de ce que je fais d’habitude, notamment de travailler quelques semaines sur le même tableau. Il y a longtemps je préférais commencer et terminer un ouevre dans la même journée. Depuis ces jours-là j’ai peut-être appris à m’appliquer un peu plus d’auto discipline (okay, pas toujours !). Enfin il n’y a pas qu’une seule approche.
Brilliant.
Well thank-you very much!
Aaah! How did I miss these!
Very nice, I like the last one most.
Not sure which I prefer really – I did about 20 or so I think but I didn’t want to be too boring with putting the whole lot here.
I missed these too! Very beautiful. In the first one the flowers change into birds flying across and then back to flowers.
That’s fascinating – I can see the birds too now you’ve said it. And if I remember rightly – you have some birds in some of your collages. I shall have to take another look & see if they turn into flowers!
Beautiful trees: a lot of craft in finding the simplest expressions…
I love these, Sonya… I saw flower-birds in the first one too! The trees are beautiful – the elegance of line in the branches of the second collage, suggests to me a sense of reaching and yearning – and of movement – which makes it a really powerful image…
Melanie
Hi. The posters have a sparse feel I like. I like poetry because I can have a poem after a short time of work (revision takes longer of course). Jane
Hello Jane – sorry I didnt reply before – have been having a bit of a break from blogs as well as painting . Need to get back to it though.