In the Name of Art

A Collage a Day

I've decided to work on my problem with preciousness by doing a collage a day and limiting myself to 45 minutes to do each. The time constraint, oddly, is very postive. I didn't expect to really finish or come up with anything terrific. Instead I look at this process like target practice, some days I'll get a bullseye and most days I won't and thats OK, I just keep working. But looking at the clock has made me trust my first instinct and thats an improvement! These aren't a command performance (as my mother would say) but I like them and will continue the experiment. They don't have paint because set-up is part of the 45 minutes and I don't have enough time. But they seem OK without it.

Some with Paint

Mid-January is way past time to get some art up here. These are old postcards that I started gluing over with this and that. I don't like to let failures go, though some are beyond hope. These 2 developed on separate tracks. The first with the repro by Reni is a continuation of my interest in Jupiter and his philandering, this one is Europa and you can just barely see the bull under her arm. I want to do a series of these and call them Jupiter's Buttons. The men at the left are peeking again and they came from another Renaissance painting.

The 2nd seemed to make itself. Another case of one part calling for another part. The pink rectangel at the bottom right is a photo section of somebodies toys set up in a row, the photo came from my bud Gretchen. the flower form grew out of that, it has a child-drawing sense to it.