Mostly Ephemeral

Right after I took the class at Wet Paint, I cut up different shapes and types of shapes from different types of paper, mostly items from the mail.  I’ve been taking out different “sets” of shapes and playing around with them.  

With the circles, I tried arranging them in different ways. For several things that seemed remotely interesting, I snapped a photo, because gluing these all down would have taken too much time.

I like this second version better.

Yesterday, I played around with some squiggly shapes and decided to glue those down.

I am enjoying this form of play. 

Ephemeral

This morning, I decided to test two different papers to see if they could handle watered down paint.  The answer was no.  After I painted them, but before they were fully dry and started to curl up, I took one page and started playing around with some cut up paper pieces I made. 

At some point in the mass of shapes, I went from looking at the relationship of the cut pieces to each other and became aware of the negative space in the blue between the shapes and grooving on that. 

I didn’t care that the blue and purple isn’t the greatest color exploration.  I wasn’t trying to complete anything, which is good because the paper has curled terribly and the pieces are loose and have shifted.  I just enjoyed starting my day this way and capturing this moment.

Back To Doing

I am back to doing or am slowly getting back to doing.  Doing what?  Something. Anything.  I don’t know.  At the core is a need to create and explore.  One thing I know is that doing leads to documenting.

Not long after finally creating something, I took a class at Wet Paint.  It was about self care and collage, so I’ve been playing around with shapes and not getting concerned about the results.  

I don’t even know what this is, but I created it.

This did not turn out initially or now, but I put it to good use and experimented.

Layer one was in Neocolor IIs (water soluble) used in the way I have used them in the past.  Since I didn’t like the result, I used a water brush, let that dry, and put more color on top with Neocolor Is (not water soluble).  I can see myself pushing this further and playing with this more.