I’ve moved my theater of operation out of my art journal to begin exploring the world of CutUps on small individual cards.
My first experiment focuses on background. I pull out my considerable stack of painted sheets of Dixie All Purpose Food Wrap—12 x 12″ sheets of tissue-like paper. I find several I painted four years ago using a limited palette to mix colors and create collage paper.
The colors aren’t particularly appealing to me and the paper has curled up tightly at the edges and resists lying flat but, What the heck, I think, let’s see what happens if I glue it to a card as background and superimpose a shape or two.
Magic is what happens!
When I place a contrasting dark bird shape on top of the mottled uneven paint application on the light background collage paper, I feel as though I am watching a Polaroid photo self-develop. Gradually—out of thin air—tree trunks, saplings, fallen logs, a leaf canopy, and a soft forest floor emerge. I am spellbound!
Keep the experimental adventures coming!
3.5 x 4.5″; acrylic, water-soluble pastel, and collage on card stock
CutUp
2024
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