Thursday, March 01, 2012

Sliver of Landscape

by Jo Reimer
Outback Red - sold
12" x 30"
collage on paper

I'm still working on the "Piecings" series (need a better name!). I started doodling in the margins of Sunday morning sermon note paper, drawing skinny rectangles and imaging them as slivers of landscape as seen through narrow windows or the arrow slots in medieval castle battlements, with the view divided into sky, forests or crops, and the land below.

detail
I continued drawing these compositions, eventually thinking of them as collages, pieced together from paper and maybe even fabric.

This is the first Sliver. I have another sliver on my easel and am chomping at the bit to get back to work.



8 comments:

  1. Love the slivers of red & painting - together they are dynamite! and the collage is 12 x 30 NICE!

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    1. Thanks Marge. I'm liking this format.

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  2. This is beautiful Jo. It is both action packed and contemplative!

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  3. Love your sliver, really has drama and I love the detail and focal point

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  4. Love the sliver concept. Great painting Jo!

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  5. Love your colors here with the solid, textured reds, top and bottom to set it off. Very nice.

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    1. Thanks, Bren, one of the things I like most about collage is the ability to combine papers to come up with something simple and yet complex.

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