Thursday, March 7, 2013

Am I Romantic?

Another recent purchase and treasure: 'The Collage Workbook' by Randel Plowman (http://acollageaday.blogspot.nl/). I love collages and this book is so inspirational. I immediately felt like trying out some of the ideas from the book. The result is this flowery nature inspired collage. The drawing in the last picture is inspired by a picture of a little cabinet like this I saw in a magazine. The books, the plant, the rug and, well everything besides the cabinet;-) came from my own imagination. Both of these works, the collage and the drawing have a romantic feeling. At least, that's how I see it. I didn't start these with the idea of creating something romantic. My work just turns out this way often. So I suppose it's just the colors and images I feel attracted too.:-). I suppose I'm not considered to be a particularly romantic person. But this might just be a side of me that needs investigation. ;-)
The collage isn't finished, I feel it needs something but I'm not sure yet what. So I"ll just let it rest and something will come to mind.





5 comments:

  1. Uuuu, nice works! The little chest of drawers is the best! I like your collage too but can see something is missing on it as well. And the book looks lovely too. I'll have a look at Amazon right away. And try to find the other one for bookbinding too.

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    1. :-). The books are both so worth it in my opinion Nini!

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    2. Well, I have Drawing Lab for Mixed Media Artists at home and I haven't tried anything from it (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Drawing-Lab-Mixed-Media-Artists/dp/1592536131/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1362696336&sr=8-1). Do you happen to own it? We could start working on the assignments together, that would be great.

      I like the book about bookbinding but not really the collage one, at least from what I saw at Amazon. It's so nice when they put some previews on so that we can see what's in the books.

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  2. Looks like a great book! Great job trying out collage! Keep on working - the more you do, the more you'll come to know what's missing or not and how to place your pieces in a way that feels & looks just right for you! :) That is one amazing painting with the drawers and vase - gorgeous! :) :)

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