JO REIMER: Changing the Rules

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Changing the Rules

Pear

Daily Collage

5x7"

I'm changing my own rules. I'm allowed to do that, you know. 5 minutes doesn't give me enough time to think about what I'm doing and to gather the papers for the day. This one took 7 minutes and, while I'm happy with it, most days I find myself wanting more time. So I'm changing back to my old old rules and allowing 15 minutes for these little warmups that some days are the only art I produce. The pear is a copy of an old painting, (I printed contact sheets to use this way) and the strip at the top is a slice of another painting. I added a strip of fabric and the rest are from studio ephemera.

1 comment:

Mary7:19 AM PDT
I still love this idea!! I want to do more collage, but I have not done so - think there is a little fear involved!! This is one of my favs!!

You know, I'm gonna set a journal aside for this I think!!!
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Art Tip: brush cleaning

As I work with acrylic medium for glue or with acrylic paints I stand my brushes in a bucket of water on my work table and give them a soap and water cleanup every day or so. But eventually my brushes get gunky and sometimes I forget to clean them. That's when I clean them with Murphy's Oil Soap. I keep an inch of MOS mixed 1:1 with water in a tall plastic tub (Feta from Costco) and put caked brushes in that solution overnight. By the next day the soap has softened the brush and with a bit of elbow grease I can get the brushes back to useable. This also works for brushes used with oil paint. I gave up using oils but wanted to save those good brushes and Murphy's Oil Soap came to the rescue. Get it at the grocery store.