Here are some recent abstract collages that include references, one way or another to real world things.
I made this collage on top of an old drawing of glasses that I found in my (voluminous) unfinished pile. Then I worked in a number of scraps from my (also voluminous) binder of doodles and fragments, This one really puts the “multi” in multimedia, as it includes pen, colored pencil, and watercolor as well as acrylic paint.
In this next one, I used a painting from 8 or 9 years ago, where I was trying to convey how the shaded parts of magnolia blooms look almost transparent. As my friend Tish said, this work is “more formal” than a lot of pieces, because of the squares (Tish is not a big fan of squares, but on principle she doesn’t say negative things about people’s artwork.)
I wanted to make a sea monster breaching from what evolved to be a yellow ocean into a pink sky.
A female figure, undaunted:
This was supposed to be a rain shower, but it didn’t work that way. Tish helped me figure out that it was a flag.
Weirdly enough, I got inspired to play with a composition from my optometrist’s Star Trek calendar, where a pilot looks out from a cockpit onto a long line-up of harbored starships.
