Two Birds
I wanted to get back to my traditional collage roots for a time and get my hands dirty. I was inspired by the artist, Cindy Wunsch, with her use of memorabilia as a background for her images. I really like her easy folk-like style, which is personally hard for me to accomplish. When I work traditionally, I'm in a constant state of fear. When I finally do find the courage to break through one obstacle, I'm afraid to ruin my piece at the next turn.
Cindy is featured in the latest Cloth Paper Scissors magazine and mentions in her article that she had a hard time starting an image. That blank canvas does have a way of stymieing creative progress! Her solution is to lay down her base with memorabilia, then paint on top of that letting key words stand out...which then starts the story rolling.
I decided to try her method and really enjoyed seeing sentimental items that had been stored for many years, make an appearance in the light of day! I played with this image and am happy with it's direction, although it feels incomplete to me.
Any ideas or thoughts would be helpful to help push me past another obstacle to the finish line. I'd like to hear it all, even though it's glued down and pretty concrete...I have more memorabilia crying to be used :)
Thanks!
3 comments:
I think it looks lovely, Stacia! and not unfinished at all. I love this style and the colour palette is great. and the conversation going on between the birds is very sweet.
I like the suggestion of music in the background too. Don't know what to suggest to improve it as it looks great to me!
xx
Thanks Lil Kim! I appreciate your kind words.
My husband told me he thought the birdhouses should take less of a priority by being a different color...the birds seemed to be a second thought.
I had to agree...so I used some walnut ink to tone them down and not be such a stark white. It helped.
Oh Stacia, I am so sorry I missed this! Well what a great way to work. I think it is a wonderful method.
For me a good start to balance the compostion would be a splash of red top right, that would give you a nice triangle between the birds and the red (just a spot like a berry, round and it will echo the round holes of the boxes) and get the eye moving round the composition. at the moment the two beaks a making a very strong diagonal that makes the eye go between them yet the diagonal is not balanced by anything else and is actually reinforced by the shape of the foliage.
the red spot may not work, but something up there should do the trick, alternatively the red spot will throw a spanner in the colour balance and you might hvae to adjust everything else! :)
looking forward to more of these
you know, I never have trouble with a blank canvas cause I project the image onto the canvas with my mind ... weird eh?
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