Texture, Surface, Paint Handling

 

Last week in class, we introduced collage
to our Modern Painting approach.
”Painting with paper” to me, is the best way to
let go of detail and just play with design.

For homework, we were to take an older painting and
either use it as a reference or do a collage right over it.

I had this older painting in my studio …...

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…..and just started adding paper and then some paint,
then more paper until this happened.

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This turned out to be a great seque
into our discussion this week;
texture, surface, and paint handling;
another favorite topic that most of us rarely experiement with.

Stay tuned!