Other collages done in the context of Act Natural workshop by Julie Prichard.

We went for a walk today and enjoyed the spring colours! I olve the yellow green of the willows, the translucent blue skies of April..if it could get warmer!!! As long as the weather is rainy and cold, I paint spring!

Another collage with a large stencil used to shape the background and scrapbooking paper and coloured silk paper. It is spring and I feel the need to see buds flowering! The weather here is awful but at least, I have control over what "grows" on my paper!

Alchemy of photo transfer!!!

I am still working on collages and photo transfer. The acrylic washes worked out great, using Payne's grey, transparent red oxyde, Van Dyke brown and Titan buff. These photo transfers are trickier to do because the instructor is asking us NOT to let the tranfer dry before removing the paper.  In the past, I managed to use Inkjet printed material and glossy liquid gel with fair success. For this type of transfer, however, it is not working as well...but one has to keep experimenting!

Another collage including a failed photo transfer! I decided that no piece of art should be thrown away: it can be transformed and recycled!!!

Working on several pieces

The day is not long enough!!! I am taking part in this Grundge Art workshop and must do the exercises...such as this second Grundgy collage! It is very relaxing and fun to do!!

Andddddddddd I am working on 2 other pieces ..are they finished? not sure yet!

Grundge Art Workshop

I registered in an online art workshop by Julie Pritchard "Act Natural"...how to make grundge art. I began with Lesson #1, of course and this was much fun! It consisted in doing a collage in neutral colours which could serve as a background for future paintings.

Here are the pieces of papers (receipts, book pages, envelopes) that I used. I did not have a great choice of vintage papers but I decided to go ahead anyway!! It's just an exercise...now, I know what kind of materials to collect!!!

The second step is to peel, very lightly, pieces of the papers.

Sanding the collage and applying some neutral colour helped to unify the look! It was early in the morning, I was just having my first coffee sooooooooooooo I gave a little to my collage!!!





I dipped a rag in Raw Umber and made scratches and added drops of acrylic ink...sprayed water, to get to the final result down below.

This exercise is to train one to make interesting and grundge looking backgrounds for future paintings!!!

This is the last version with acrylic glazing liquid to unify colours.

It is kind of addictive...I will do many more! A fun way to experiment with materials and to relax...