This is just another update, the top one is a collage dealing with tan and gray pallet. The bottom piece is from my series done with japanese paper. This was the second piece I've done in the series, however I was suggested by Tim Harney, a former teacher at Montserrat, suggested that I should have a consistent scale of collages. I would continue with this series until I run out of paper as a goal.

Just keeping updated with the blog, I've been caught up with finishing up school the time being. I will be doing a drawing demo tomorrow at the Artragous! art auction. See art blog for detail.

This is the first circle collage piece I've done, which is about 13 inches in diameter. It was challenging at first because of the fact I wanted to keep a perfect circle therefore I cut pieces that conformed along the edges. I'm working on a triptych at the time being for my final project in my collage projects course and hoping they're as strong, if not stronger, than the first piece I've done.

This is from my advanced life drawing class from last year. I've had this buried within a bunch other work and haven't really done anything with it. People tend to be intrigued by this piece from some reason, though I do believe it was an interesting way of drawing the figure with collage elements. It isn't exactly my favorite, but it is worth showing.

This is part of my circles series that I've been developing ever since the first large one I've ever done. They are constructed in the same manner as my ovals, only they are circles. These are from the smaller ones, roughly 4 inches in diameter, this I made into a diptych. This diptych format occurred by happenstance since I made one circle outline and simply forgot about it. But when it reemerged I noticed that there was just enough room to add another circle that would then make an interesting connection between the two. Its important for me to bring the 'happenstance' to mind because that is how I process my collages when I work in the beginning. I lay down pieces depending on color and percentages with the white background, then begin to play off of other found pieces that correspond with other shapes, whether I'm playing off of other pieces according to line, shape, color, etc.

I juxtaposed these collages intentionally. With the exception that they have a different color formula and size [the top being larger than the bottom] they have different spacial qualities. The top for how I see it has a Cubist space with diagonal, pattern, and edge shifts that allows you to move your eye around the fragmented image. Whereas the bottom has a flatness and color play that Hofmann created in his abstract paintings. Will Barnet, who happens to be a Beverly native, always felt strong about creating flatness in his work which comes from his inspiration to Indian miniatures. Though these artists are painters they work in the same tradition as collage and vice versa. It is interesting to see how flatness and color play a major role for developing paintings, whether it is abstract or reality. That is what fascinates me when developing collage, it even allows to me to see invention of space and mood in my paintings. I think it's important for any painter to at least be familiar with collage and understand its history, but that's my opinion.

Second post of collages, simply to have more than two pieces up. These are smaller ones that I've done. There are from some pieces that are composed to have a play with flatness in space.