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I set this page up as a demo of one way to make a collage. These pieces are all on canvas....small 12 x 12" gallery wrap. This isn't the only way I work and it is actually fairly new to me to use canvas as the substrate.
I lay out all the canvases on my table and randomly paint backgrounds with
acrylic. I make marks with pencils or watercolor crayons....I coat all the paint with gloss medium since I think I'll be ironing
down the collage elements 'a la Jonathan Talbot method
http://www.talbot1.com . For more
information, click here. Then I rummage around in
my collage papers and just start laying out pieces of paper to see what happens.
I noticed some of these papers weren't holding that well....maybe some were old
and lost their sticky...so I just put some gel medium under the areas
that needed it. The papers I use are a combination of painted papers, old found
papers, new found papers and purchased papers. Use anything you like that isn't
too heavy to stay stuck to the substrate you choose.
One
of my friends came over to visit one week-end. We are both interested in experimenting with
transferring images. I have a new pigment ink printer so I printed out an image
from a trip I made to Spain and then coated the collage face and the image with
acrylic medium and placed it on the canvas......
I
waited for it to dry and then rubbed the back of the paper off to expose the
image. I forgot to take a picture of the extra image in the background but it
came from another photo taken from the front of a building. You notice I also
just have arbitrary color marks made on the canvas. I don't like work to be too
much pre-planned so I just make marks on the substrate after I lay in a back
ground color.
I usually work on about two pieces at a time and then switch over to two
more...........these are the two that had the transferred image...one will not
have it when I'm finished with the pieces.
I placed four of the eight (wonder where that other photo went)......on my
painting wall to see how they are going so far.
Then I went off to Santa Fe for a monotype workshop before they were resolved.
Almost two weeks later I came back to find them still there waiting for me. They had to be finished before I could start to work on those monotypes that were crying for lots of help.......
Finally found the picture of the eight collages finished on
the wall easel!
When they were finished, I coated them with Golden GAC 500 medium so they would have a consistent sheen on the entire surface and will varnish them with Golden UV varnish. They will be framed with maple floater frames.
These are the finished pieces......The titles are Altered Vision 1-8.
They're all 12 x 12" although my photo editing is a little off square and size.
CDMC.....July 2005