Bright, bold color has always made my brain spark.
Even as a child, what few art museums or festivals or stores..... wherever art was presented, I always gravitated to the brightest colored art.
Representational, no matter how good or how famous, I could look at it for a second, tell what it was and what it was saying and then....it could not keep the interest of my brain....NEXT!! ha ha... of course as an adult, I can truly appreciate and recognize every style done well. I can appreciate what it may have taken to create it. I can appreciate the talent.
As a child though, it was the brightly colored abstracts that would hold my attention. They said something... but what? Did they say something to you and something different to me? Did they say something important... or nothing at all? That's what it made my brain want to do, wonder and turn and think on....between the color and the mystery of what it was trying to convey.....THAT was what held me.
Last week I made this colorful piece from some of the wildly colored big painted papers I made a few weeks ago. Even though it is now in painted paper/collaging form, the bright colors do hark back to my "paint only" art days. I haven't given up on my paint only pieces, I'm just in a time of exploring and now consider mixed media as part of me as well.
(8x8 on stretched canvas)
The day after I made the above, I still had the leftover papers on my desk, so I made this piece on the back of a deluxe size playing card. It's advantage was that one of the hand-painted papers I made a couple of weeks back was the entire background which caused it to have several layers in the adding of one piece. The large orange/yellow circles being what was cut out of the orange/yellow circles on the first one.
Sisters !
The brightly colored collages that are my favorites still let me use my love of painting bright colors, only now I paint/press/stencil with even more abandon, because all of it will be torn up and used in pieces to create something else. I really, REALLY love my paper painting sessions.
The byproduct of that is, I end up with a gazillion small pieces left when I tear and create. Sometimes it is so tiny it really can't be used again, but other times, there are still small pieces of great color left. I always waffle on what to save for later and what not to save. It is good to have a few various colored pieces, because sometimes a future piece may need just a little something to help balance the color or design and Vwa-LA.... there is something usable in the scrap pile.
Eventually it comes the time when there are so many small pieces, that you can't even look through them all. That is when you have to decide to throw some of it out.... or something?
I have done this before and have shown some of it. I take a coloring book page that has nice porous paper and I start gluing the colorful bits on. This way I create another paper that I can can use in some future pieces and at least some of the scraps get another chance to actually end up in a piece of art.
I know that makes them happy to get another chance. 😂
Last night was the night that it was time to thin the pile, so I created these three sheets. Sometimes when I have so many, I will make a sheet of only cool colors or a sheet of only warm colors, but this time, I made all three randomly. Once in a while, some bits will fall together in neat color combinations in a small spot and I think... Oh! I need to remember I could put those together in the future.
You have to realize, that each bit you see in these is part of a bigger paper that was once painted or stenciled or pressed. Yes... some bits are from the same paper, but still.....SO many!
Of course I didn't create these all at the same time, but they ended up on my art desk this morning for their photo-shoot for this post and they look so happily colorful together.
It's Saturday! I love Saturdays! There is so much to do, things that should be done and things I just want to do and so, like normal, some of each will be done.
I hope you are having a good weekend, however you are choosing to spend it.
Love you!
Jacey
A very beautiful design. Which looks very nice and also the color combination is amazing.
Thank you! I appreciate your kind words. :)
Greetings Jacey,
What a lively post...so full of creativity and its results!
The lead photograph of your art is lovely...it comes across as fresh, colourful and energetic. Well done!
The Three are delightful....they bring to mind the American quilt...full of interesting shapes.
Kind Regards,
Bleujay
Thank you!
I hadn't thought about the quilt affect on the other papers, but I can see that now that you mention it.
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I love all your wonderful colorful creative pieces. These are so exciting. I particularly love those last 3!
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