Sunday, August 29, 2021

container decoration

 A friend of mine bought a "tobacco container" called a dugout, and wanted me to decorate it. The first two images are the finished product. The others are some intermediates that I was considering. Funny how it works... I was seconds away from adhering the brain imagery, when I looked on the table and saw the flower element. When I placed it on the piece, I immediately changed my mind and went with the flower. Emergent properties! I have a forthcoming article in Kolaj magazine related to that concept.







 

Thursday, August 12, 2021

Collagist dilemma

I have a bit of a dilemma that I think some fellow collagists might appreciate. And perhaps "dilemma" is too strong of a word (I wish all my problems were this trivial, after all). I have a group of elements that I got years ago that are basically images of Vargas-type pin-up girls (I think "women" would be the better term). They are beautiful -- and larger than a typical magazine page (they are 9" x 12"). On the back of each page is a smaller, black-and-white version of the image along with information about the image. Here's the "dilemma". I have become interested in using the smaller (2.5 x 3.5"), black-and-white version of this particular element because it would fit perfectly into a background substrate I have found. The problem is that -- as an analog collagist -- if I use that image, I basically destroy the larger colored image. I am a "religious" analog collagist (self-imposed, arbitrary restriction, of course), so I won't photocopy the image for use (I know, it's somewhat silly, but I am dedicated to using only original elements). I'm explicitly not looking for any advise, but thought I would post as a point of interest, in terms of my creative process, perhaps ;-)








Friday, August 6, 2021

Scrabble table

Here's a work-in-progress that I plan to give to my sister for Christmas...