2015 | Day 29

Day Twenty-Nine

I have been working on the big blue fluffy biteyou's background tonight.  I think I am going to call those pointy things mountains.  The two pointy things on each side of the collage are going to be towers of some kind (I think)...for now...maybe.  I outlined the various pointy things and added white Unyru paper to give a hint of snow.  I have LOTS of work to do, obviously, but at least I have more of an idea now.

Tonight's starting point.

Pointy things...becoming mountains.

Camera can't focus on this very well...old, old tissue papers from a Japanese sample book...the white papers are yellowing.

This tissue has a small flower design.

Where the torn paper is going.

How it looks for now...I am sure it will change.

White Unryu paper as a snow cap for a mountain.

Hmmm...not bad...but I am sure it will change, too.

More snow.

More mountains...more snow.

Not sure yet if this is a sun or a moon.

This pointy thing will become some sort of tower.

So will this one...a stripey tower.

Where I am leaving it for tonight...I will just overwork it if I keep at it.

I have only glue-sticked the papers on...they need matte medium...and I have a feeling they won't look the same after it dries.  Like I said...there is a LOT of work to do on this still.

365/2013 - Day 354

practicing the shirt

Today I had the "brilliant" idea to maybe avoid painting the young dog guy's shirt by cutting papers to color it instead.  I traced the shirt and sleeves (it is supposed to be sort of a baseball shirt style) and cut some practice papers to see a few different combinations.  

Oh -- and in the meantime while I was cutting the papers, Twink decided to "help" and was making me nuts so I gave him one of his catnip fish...he got a bit 'nipped.

All ready to get started on practicing with the papers.

Gah -- Twink wants to "help" -- he helps by rolling and rubbing and flipping around until he knocks something onto the floor and then acts all innocent and adorable.  Yeah.

I tossed him one of his catnip fish.

That worked -- now he is all 'nipped and wants no part of my papers!

The first sleeves - cut from the "wrong" side of some beautiful marbled paper.  I was thinking of this young dog guy being painted in light or pale blue...so I don't know if these sleeves will work, but they look good.

And a pale blue piece of mulberry paper for the body of the shirt.

Or how about the "right" side of the marbled paper -- no...too busy.

But I do like this pale blue paper -- it is like other papers already in the collage background, only it is blue.  It will definitely let the dots and other things show through.

But then again...how about a different "wrong" side of another sheet of marbled paper?  And an egg yolk yellow shirt part?

Maybe the other yellow is too strong...maybe just another layer of the same yellow from the background.

Or maybe the strong yellow underneath with the pale yellow on top -- I am pretty sure stuff will still show through like I want it to.  Decisions...decisions...

And later on in the evening I got busy cutting the last of the bodies for the Animal People...then I noticed it was already 11 so I stopped to come in here to post this blog entry before midnight.  There are only 3 images left to go!

I will cut those last three bodies out and then start thinking about the collage some more.  The papers will look different once they are put in place with the matte medium.  I wish there was a way to practice that before making my final choice.  Hmmm...

365/2013 - Day 139

tidying up and revisiting a project

This afternoon I couldn't stand all of the art papers scattered behind my desk.  It was time to at least stack them and roll them up together (for later sorting) and to stash the smaller still-good pieces in a bag of their own.  I have a lot of paper...man!

I'm not proud of the ocean of papers back here...but this is what a portion of it looked like.

There...straightened out a bit.

It might not look like it, but that is a LOT of paper!

While I was cleaning up I found several projects that I had forgotten about.  This is one of them...remember this paint-by-numbers-without-the-numbers kind of canvas board I had?  Here is the original blog entry about it from back in January.  Tonight it seemed like he wanted his mask more defined and wanted a slightly less decorative jacket collar.

The left side of the "mask" has a basket underneath it I think.

Yeah...I will leave out the grapes and whatever that fruit was on the left side of what is now his collar.  I tried to duplicate the basic shape for the right side.  I am not sure if this is how it will stay.

And here is at the end of tonight -- still a sort of a minotaur/bear kind of guy.