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| Little Jo and Her Dolly |
You've seen Little Jo before. I used her photos several years ago when I first stated making a collage a day and I ran across some of her prints while preparing for Collage BootCamp which will be this coming Saturday, March 12. (There are still a few spaces, if you can join us. Click here for more information.)
One doesn't usually find much use for childhood photos, but I'm having such fun with mine. These Little Jo photos are of me at 2-4 years of age, taken by my dad who loved me with his camera, for which I'm grateful.
Now I'm at it again. I won two canvases for the Village Gallery of Arts May show, Art Adoption, and bought two more and am running with the Little Jo theme.
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| Little Jo and Her New Trike |
Two of the collage processes I teach in my one-day collage class, BootCamp, are used in all four collage paintings which are made on the cradled canvas. The background was built up first, using the inside of security envelopes. I didn't really think much about what I was doing once I chose and trimmed the papers to size.
After the background dried the front and sides got an isolation coat and then I started playing with scraps of brightly colored papers that contrast strongly against the gray ground.
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| Little Jo and Jimbo |
I call this type of composition, Layer Cake. It's one I teach in BootCamp, where you make a cattywampus paper layer cake. Little Jo was added here and there and then I spent a satisfying evening doing lots of line-work. I don't think they're quite done but that's okay because they'll hang around the studio for two months before I have to send them out into the world and I'm sure I'll figure out something else to do to them.
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| Little Jo Joins the Party |
I'll remind you about the VGA show later on in April. There will be 180 6x6" artworks on canvas available at bargain basement prices of $25-$50. It's a benefit for the gallery. Long lines form at the door the morning of May 3 at 10am so come early.
Jo, I love your "Little Jo" series. I too enjoy using old b/w photos in my artwork. Maybe the ancestor cards planted seeds on fertile ground.
ReplyDeleteThanks Sandy. I'm sure those Ancestor Deck cards did lots of good things for us. it's all good, all that work cutting, sewing, gluing, mark-making, research, play. Don't we artists have fun? A friend asked me what I do when I get bored. I was stymied. I never get bored. There's never enough time to do all I want to do. The only limiting factor is energy and even that can be worked around.
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