Whoop, Whoop, I finally have had a little time again and my studio and house are pretty clean and tidy. The annual deadline for the Pastel Society has passed and that means I can turn my attention to the other media that I work in and although I am itching to paint, I wanted to explore an idea that's been buzzing in my head that I thought might be interesting. There is an open submission coming up that it might work for.
By titling these I have given you an in into what is in my head. I didn't tell Patrick anything but showed him the top fused plastic collage and asked him for three words. He looked worried, but when pressed, his first word was 'Chinese'. I was so delighted by his first word that he never gave me the other two words. As I worked on the 'Green Scroll' over a few days, I began to feel something Asian in it. I wanted to play with the power of different colours in the arrangement. I was thinking about my night light drawing. The medallions are landscapes and may tell stories.
Green Scroll II was even more difficult to realize. I wanted a companion piece and as I worked in a similar way, the plastic melted differently, my shapes shrunk and contorted and when I finished working yesterday it was a mess. The background colour began as yellow then became whites and finally today I masked the medallions with tape and painted in tones of blue and green acrylic paint to float the focal plastic shapes.
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