Monday, 3 November 2014

The Scenes Paintings: Decisions 2

The next step is about the children.









I went through my photo files, looking for images that reflected the themes. I scanned, reversed, drew, scanned, added gradations, and scanned again.



 I went through files I have of my own kids' preschool endeavours. My son was a composer and my daughter filled pages with writing. I scanned them, printed them with slight shifts in colour and made them less opaque.



I printed the 2 together and reapplied gradations. Trial and error ruled the day. A lot of error.

The set of 13 completed, I decided that the collage effect would be enhanced if I tore some of the edges. I applied them to the canvases, like so:



















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