bds collages have really opened a can of worms

 the details are pretty great.   i love seeing the half tone

what to do with these mountains

they haunt me!

cloud collage

today i started working with some digital prints.  

snow replaced by wall

printing again

i am printing colour photos again, which i haven't done since leaving school approx. 7 years ago.  yikes!  im still using the same paper i had left over from then, so it ultra-expired.  it is coming out really yellow, which makes for some interest, but is less than optimal.  luckily i am just churning through it and making images i can collage with, so am not completely worried about them looking not so perfect.   anyway, here are some experiments and documents so far!

cloud cloud.. cloud

moutnain vortex.

i impulsively and obsessively made this giant collage yesterday.  i am on the fence about how i feel about it.  it is kind of intense and i feel like it might be stronger with more of a single focal point.  its pretty overwhelming.  especially since it is 30 x 22 inches or so.  its pretty big for a collage made entirely out of colour photocopies.  the colour copies also aren't the very best -their colours aren't very balenced and they vary from one to the next, so i guess i would like to try this again using nicer prints and have a visual focal point - but im loving the layering of the clouds and messing with the horizon of the landscape.   title suggestions?

 

 

new studio lights!!!

im so excited about my new lights!!! 

flail-about-freak-out

i took the little ariels from a video of her twirling into a dramatic fall   

tell me your favorites....

everyone disappeared, but im gonna keep posting anyway.

see through house No. 2

ice ice ice

splashy splashy

falling sky

horizon wonkeyness

 

ive become fascinated by collaging an off kilter horizon.  this is the first intentional attempt at messing with what should be a straight horizon.  I also love seeing the dot printing of these old books plates, i think it has an interesting clash when the two separate images come together to  make one image. be sure to click on the top image to preview it at a larger size to see the detail. 

two more

two collages

other collage ideas

Beach glamor