Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Two Tuesdays - Collage #15

2012 Collage Challenge

While looking for some collage material I pulled out a pile of unfinished and less than perfect gelatin plate prints I had tucked away in a drawer. It's always fun to go through these piles with fresh eyes and find small sections that have some interest to see if they can be reused in a new piece. 

The theme for this months sketchbook challenge is circles so I've been seeing them everywhere I look including on these old old gelatin plate prints


© K. Johnson 'Circles I' - 7"x 5" gelatin plate print collage


© K. Johnson 'Circles II' - 7"x 5" gelatin plate print collage

All the collages in this series can be seen here.

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Two Tuesdays - Collage #14

2012 Collage Challenge


© K. Johnson 'Bluebells' - 7" x 5" collage on paper


All the collages in this series can be seen here.

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Independence Day

Harkness Memorial State Park, Waterford, CT
From every mountain side
let freedom ring.

         ~Samuel F. Smith, "America"

 

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Two Tuesday's - Collage #13

2012 Collage Challenge

For the first time since I started this challenge I didn't think I was going to have anything ready to show this week. I've been feeling pretty scattered with many projects on my mind. Even when I did manage to steal a little time to sit down and start a collage I would get to a point where I couldn't figure out where to go with it or knew it just wasn't going to work at all.

Over the weekend I was thinking about and making notes for all the things I had to do to get ready for company coming on the 4th of July holiday this week. One of the notes was a reminder to put the flag out and that's when the red, white and blue theme came to mind.  I went through my bins of paper and pulled out all the red, white and blue I could find and spread them out on the table. I started with the very structured and planned out blue one Sunday evening and cutting it a bit close, started and finished the throw it together quick and don't think about it red one this morning.

© K. Johnson 'July 4th - Red' - 7" x 5" collage on paper

© K. Johnson 'July 4th - White' - 7" x 5" collage on paper

© K. Johnson 'July 4th - Blue' - 7" x 5" collage on paper

All the collages in this series can be seen here.