#painterly collage

All the gaps have been filled, all the sharp edges defined, and the correct colors mostly established. There’s still a lot of touching-up to do, but this one is getting close to completion.

Detail of “Burning Bush,” a collage work-in-progress. Made with de-acidified magazine clippings on stretched canvas.

Today is brought to you by the color blue. More postcard-sized (4x6) collage.

If you’re familiar with my work, you know I rarely use whole images, but every now and then I’ll use them for accents like this.

This is another pattern -- a fragment of one, at least -- that I worked out in my quest to answer the question: "What would the collage equivalent of a Zentangle drawing look like?"

This is one of my favorites out of the dozen or so patterns I invented in response to asking myself the question, "What would the collage equivalent of a Zentangle drawing look like?"

This little collage (not available for sale) was titled "Fire Opal" (6" x 4", 2016, recycled paper on canvas board).