Background Check
The background check on this CutUp indicates that it began its life as one of several painting starts created in June 2023. I had plans to take the starts on vacation … until the vacation got smoked out by Canadian wildfires!
This week, a card cut from one of the starts auditioned to be cast as a CutUp and got the part. In my ongoing experimentation with backgrounds, I veiled its bright colors with two layers of tissue paper, achieving a very satisfying softening. I then cut shapes from still-bright-and-bold sections of the remainder of the start and followed Matisse’s lead by painting up some fresh collage paper when I needed a darker green contrast than was available.
I’m liking the little happy dance that this CutUp became!
3.5 x 4″; acrylic and collage on card stock
CutUp
2024
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8 responses to “Background Check”
Lola! YAY! Grateful to have you following my journey; grateful to have you agog!
These CutUps are surprisingly challenging for me. I really have to push up my sleeves and grapple with ALL MANNER of unexpected THINGS I DO NOT KNOW and then come up with COUNTERMEASURES for the lack therein. You know of what I speak
Thanks for tipping your hat to my titles, Sheila; love coming up with titles : )
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