New Merch

So I'm taking a break from the Test Pattern paintings for a few weeks. Instead I'm trying to do something with all the piles of paper scraps that have accumulated from various collage projects. I can't bring myself to throw any of this stuff away so I've been making small magnet-backed collages and uploading them to my etsy shop instead. So far I've finished about 20 - the plan is to keep at it until I get bored or run out of steam. Here's a sample:

Found Friday 8

inside cover of an 1860's arithmetic textbook

Found Friday 7

Found Friday 6

German tobacco card with still from Ein Unsichtbarer geht durch die Stadt (The Invisible Man in the City), 1935.

Test Patterns (Mea Cupla)

Another from the Test Pattern series. It's curious to me how many of these are turning out sideways. Here's the original collage study with it's "proper" orientation of two stacked rows of vertical bands:



Below is the completed 8 x 8" painting. It took a good bit of fussing to get the left half of the piece to work - I had to tinker with the hues of the blue bands to get them to relate to the blue form at the bottom center, and to get just the right right-leaning slant so that all of the forms balanced. I also mirrored the pink & red forms from the upper right in the dark vertical band at the top center:



For comparison here's the original collage study rotated to match the orientation of the finished painting:


I've been thinking about the differences between the small collage studies and the (slightly) larger panel paintings. One thing I've noticed is the larger pieces are much more dense - the forms are usually more opaque and delineated, whereas the smaller collages are more fluid and offhand. In both cases I think it works okay - the larger pieces seem more solid and hold the wall better while the smaller studies are more intimate and sexy. Anyway, just my thoughts - yours?

Found Friday 5