Prompt: Consider the center of it all as that relates to you and your life/the world you've made around it. Focus: our body's coiled energy …. what we are carried by when we breathe deeply and keep still. What does that center look and feel like?
My meditation Practice.
i used the Payne's Grey Inktense Pencil and wet it a lot, pressed down the rumpled tissue while still wet. I like what happened. Will do this more as a Ground. Be sure to enlarge the dark image.
This is really wonderful, Grace. And it is such powerful synchronicity to come here and see this and feel so inspired. For a few hours now I’ve been really wanting to experiment with tissue paper and coloration. Like REALLY as in stop everything else and don’t bother me until further notice level ‘really want to do it.’ We went to the Eric Carle museum today and I was agog at his collages there in the gallery. He paints on tissue paper with acrylics – that’s how he’s made almost all of his book illustrations.
i had wondered how it might work with ink. have so much of it. and it is my favorite medium of all.
Now seeing what you did with the inktense – maybe i will start experimenting there. I might not be as … hesitant.
Am interested in working with Willow Oak and Mustard. Maybe if that goes well I’ll also play with a few brights. Cherry and Sienna Gold. Am moved to collage with very thin layers. Seeing all that stunning art today clinched the urge and turned it into a plan. Then I come here, less than an hour back home, and see this amazing composition with the incredible inktense working.
so many ideas percolating. this challenge has turned into a micro-zeitgeist or so it seems.
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AHHHHH…i will go look at Eric Carle…don’t know anything. And i want to know more about inktense and tissue too…a way for me to work with all manner of color and still keep a sense of organic.
microzeitgeist…well…yes…so it seems*…the Pulse
quickens and we All feel it, respond to it
*my therapist used to say that. His left eyebrow would go up and he would finish listening to whatever STUFF i was going on about and then after some silence, he would say
so it seems.
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YES!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Very Hungry Caterpillar!…we have this book here!, Yes! OK!!!!! I’ll find it in the morning.
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it looks like painting made to look like collage but really it’s the other way around.
You wouldn’t BELIEVE the collages I saw today. So much wanted to sneak pics but you aren’t supposed to in the galleries of original art.
We saw all the original artwork for an Ocean-themes book he had done. I was bent over looking at all the beautifully marked thin layers fused together murmuring in delight. I could have literally slept in that room and then woke up and spent a few more hours looking.
Un. believable. Art.
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i feel the Un. believable. in your words here and
it gives a tingle.
it’s all Out There, yes? how do we bring it Home, to
what we need to do…this…the challenge.
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Both of you…..can draw with inktense pencils on the tissue paper DRY and after drawing is done wet the tissue.
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yes…i will try that too.
I like what happened today…it’s like a veil, a
membrane
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tissue is my favorite paper. why? it’s like cloth. Try tea bags. There’s a tea a moon up on my instagram.
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You saying that is really opening the door for me to stop being afraid I’m going to do it wrong and “spoil” the paper.
Just. do it and see what happens.
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Those who are following the challenge may want to take another look at Liz’s tea bag additions on her Basra collage.
(also jude’s remark underscores why I called tissue paper the harem cloth of collage)
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yes!, it’s that
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Payne’s Gray is one of my favorite colors…so evocative.
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Love the palpable creative energy generated by this post… Places in your collage, Grace, feel cocoon-like to me.
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i need to not keep adding for the moment. I need to get
back to cloth soon. but i will see if i can go see your
moon.
and YES OH YEES…it’s TRUE, this crushed distressed
tissue from the tub at B …..YES that’s it!…LIKE
CLOTH..i’d not understood that…OH THANK YOU
I have a LOt of it…both the yellowy and this white.
Am so glad i didn’t throw it “away”.
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the harem cloth of collage.
oh…BIG SMILE
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it truly IS my favorite. Especially in oil paint.
in oils it’s so magic
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and yes, Beth, that’s the quality of it too…
yes. When it’s wet, pressed in. As if spun.
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