New Work Update #1

Well, yesterday being a wet day - me not being able to do much except clean the house up - I thought to dive in and start on my main piece of collage work when the piano tuner arrived.  Instead of waiting for him, I just began organising the work into piles after cleaning off the piano and moving the furniture for him.

Soon enough, he called and I met him at the gate and he was doing his work and I was doing mine.  I had already done the background up with pages from an old Tom Clancy book (like I did with a smaller one) and so I began working words that had 'idea' and 'inspiration' in the wording and began gluing it along the bottom right with some small book reviews and other things like bookmarks and smaller pictures hidden behind it.  The idea of it is that the idea is at the bottom of the pile and book is what blooms at the top.  Then, I got stuck and I worked on the other book

cover one for a bit.
Before going to sleep last night, I found out what I needed to do to kick it along.  I needed some real books to glue onto the top and paint so that I could mould them onto the canvas; and then make it work into the piece... make it look like it's a part of the piece already.

New Lot of Work in Progress

As you may have been noticing, I've taken a great interest in collage and using paint in the process.  So, I've decided to start a new lot of works in collage; thus a new exhibition.  I don't have a name for it yet, but I will keep you all in the loop with its progress until I do.  
This time, I will be trying to get myself into a proper gallery; namely the one I work in.  The pieces will be for sale and I'll be trying out to get myself into better places as I move forward with my art.  So, keep your eyes on this space, I'm working on plenty of things.

Traffic Control Art

I love looking at outsider art; no matter what kind of work it is.  And while at Garden City yesterday, I found one that was out of this world.

I'm sure you've all seen this kind of work on traffic control boxes at numerous intersections all over this great country of ours (if not, well, here in Queensland, they're doing it; and it's quite a lot of fun).  And this one jumped out at me, so I took a photo of it just because it reminded me of the author Isaac Asimov and a few other authors of sci-fi.

Pretty cool, eh?  So, is there any outsider art around your area you've see and would like to share with us?  If so, let us know the url through the comments below and I'll have a look and see if I can put it into the links on sidebar.

A Collage In Progress.

Slowly but surely, I've been working on a collage.  It began about a month ago when I took apart a Tom Clancy book which was falling apart and glued some of the pages to a stretched canvas.  Then, I left it alone; not knowing quite what to do with it.

Then, after I got into a workshop late last month, I got the best idea and raided a thrift shop of its books that were falling apart and were unreadable to complete the project.  I took the covers and spines off where I could and worked on what I could yesterday.  

And thus far it looks wonderful!  I've glued on 'A Time to Kill' and 'Interview With The Vampire' both about death and destruction... however, I'll be adding in a book or two of romance; so that when I end up painting the edges of the pages red, the colour will mean two different things.  Pretty cool, eh?  Well, I'll keep you up to date about when it'll be finished and post a photo of the finished product once I'm done with it.