to make a companion piece for the collage I posted yesterday. I feel like I should make collages in a series, but my attention span only lasts for about two at a time, which is not much of a series. Then I want to move on to something else, another color combination, just about anything that has inspired me as I wander around my basement.
I attach the collage elements to the watercolor paper with gloss medium, just because I happened to have a large bottle of it around. It is pretty much transparent when it dries, and leaves a varnish-like finish on each piece. But the pieces are still tactile, bumpy, textured. Is that the way they are supposed to be? Or should I put another finish on them to make them smooth, if that's even possible?
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honey combs and polka dots, nice....
Mary, I happened upon your blog and the phrase "What if I used more brown" really caught my eye. For me, it's orange. I am using it everywhere! I don't remember asking myself, "What if I used more orange?" but I MUST have!
Hi, Jeane: Honeycombs, yes. That's what they are. And I gotta quit with the polka dots, don't you think?
Carol: I'm glad you found my blog. I love orange, too. It's a happy color, I think. I'm forcing myself to limit my color selection, with varying degrees of success. I hope you decide to visit here often.
Mary, these are great! And I like bumpy. Gives them character.
But there is a way to make things flatter and smoother if that's what you really want. But there's no way they're "supposed" to be.
I learned this trick at a Jonathan Talbot workshop, link provided here. This workshop attendee details how this is done. Scroll down to Paragraph 5 under "Back to the workshop" and she describes it.
http://www.talbot1.com/workshop/reviews/montreal.htm
It's a fun way to do collage. Now dammit, you've really got me wanting to do some.
Martha: I will go to the link, but I wonder if it's what Talbot describes in his booklet. . . have you tried it? I really can't wait to see your collages. I have so much fun making them.
That's also in his booklet I believe. Got it with the workshop.
I have tried that. I much prefer it to wet gluing a piece of paper onto a surface. However, It requires enough patience to apply a couple of coats of the stuff to both surfaces and waiting for it to dry. And you know me and patience!
Martha, I'm with you on that patience thing. . . and it would seem to require a lot of advanced planning, which I'm not too good at either. I tend to grab anything that catches my eye to use in a collage. I would have to coat almost every piece of paper in the place in order to do it right. But Talbot certainly has the collage technique honed, and maybe I should try to corral my baser instincts and give his way a shot. I don't mind the glue so much, but it's really hard to get off my hands. . . they look like they're peeling, not matter how much I wash them.
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