#painterly collage

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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.

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

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

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A little visual divertimento. Recycled paper and magazine clippings on mat board, 6”x4”.

I was experimenting with different methods of creating free form spirals, using magazine clippings pasted on a small (4” x 6”) piece of mat board. When the board was full, I chose an orientation and added a few clippings of intact images.

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.

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What do you see? Donuts? Forty-fives? Old tires? Bubbling mud? Anything?

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?"

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"Amethyst" and "Ice Jam". Two postcard-sized collages out of a collection currently available only to my newsletter subscribers. (Sign up on my website, https://www.deboraheater.com/)

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?"

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