This piece has been giving me trouble for a while. Maybe because it's larger than most of my recent mixed media paintings, and suddenly filling so much empty canvas with tiny scraps of paper feels very tedious. And it just had no life, it didn't "sing", you know? So I took a week off and worked on other stuff. Back to it now this week, plugging away, because sometimes the answer is "just do the work." And, it's finally starting to feel better! It has some life now! I'm trying to remind myself that it is not a still life, my angles and shadows don't have to be perfect; quirky and messy can give it a soul as long as it's not just messy because I'm lazy.
One big thing to decide: I ran out of the tissue paper I usually use to create soft gradations of color in sky and water areas. Do I go buy tissue paper, or just work with and embrace this more choppy and blocky look?? I miss my tissue paper.... #carafosterkarim #workinprogress #modernart #art #bostonartist #bostonart #Somervilleart #somervilleartist #landscape #paintingwithpaper #papercollageart #newspapercollage #bridge #water #sky
