collage
I've been working on a couple of house collages for, like, a year, I dunno. Mostly they sit around and taunt me with their incompleteness and their taking-up-spaceness and their being the first step into something that I really really want to do but it's harder.
Anyway. One is sitting around waiting for me to master heat embossing. Which is to say, get a better heater, I guess, 'cause the current one burns the paper before it melts the embossing crystals. And then maybe it is done, or maybe not, I don't know if it'll need more layers yet.
The other looks great, but it is too dark. Gothic. A little depressing. Black, dark green, etc. I just had the following conversation with my brain:
It's STILL TOO DARK.
... Why don't you just dry-brush a nice light color on top of it?
But then I'll lose ALL MY WORK!
... It's a COLLAGE. It's SUPPOSED to have layers. Maybe they will poke through. Maybe not. They'll still be there.
Hmmm. Shut up.
You're welcome.
Anyway. One is sitting around waiting for me to master heat embossing. Which is to say, get a better heater, I guess, 'cause the current one burns the paper before it melts the embossing crystals. And then maybe it is done, or maybe not, I don't know if it'll need more layers yet.
The other looks great, but it is too dark. Gothic. A little depressing. Black, dark green, etc. I just had the following conversation with my brain:
It's STILL TOO DARK.
... Why don't you just dry-brush a nice light color on top of it?
But then I'll lose ALL MY WORK!
... It's a COLLAGE. It's SUPPOSED to have layers. Maybe they will poke through. Maybe not. They'll still be there.
Hmmm. Shut up.
You're welcome.