In yesterday's post I talked about how the paper cutting technique was pretty intense but I got 4 elements out of 1 and I was going to use them in different ways. Well I was flipping through this cool book and there is a great section on working in series that I thought was really interesting and helpful.
Creative Paint Workshop for Mixed-Media Artists
Experimental Techniques for Composition, Layering, Texture, Imagery, and Encaustic
By
Ann Baldwin
Creative Paint Workshop for Mixed-Media Artists
is a workshop-style book, oriented to the wide community of crafters
and artists including those interested in paint, surface design, mixed
media, and collage, which explores a wide variety of innovative and
experimental paint techniques. Chapters cover composition, abstraction,
texture, layering, using found objects, encaustic, integrating text,
and adding digital imagery.
Ann Baldwin (Vallejo, CA) was born in London and lived there until 1990 when she came to live in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband. She began painting in 1991, after being a teacher of literature all of her working life. Within 18 months she was exhibiting landscapes in local juried shows.
Initially self-taught, she began studying art history, painting, color theory, drawing, and design she became known as an abstractionist, and later developed her text-and-image collages. As a full-time artist, she continues to break rules and experiment, currently with encaustic.
Click on the images to read about how to work in series. There are some really good ideas about not telling your viewer what to think, juxtaposing images for the sake of irony and ideas on some themes that Ann Baldwin used.
I bet you can guess what today's question is:
Do you or have you ever worked in series?
And what was your theme?
Or if you plan to work in series, what will it be?
As a thanks for answering you are entered to win a free book!
I really think other than the obvious of "deer" being my theme for this series, I think ironic texture is what mine is, oh but I wasn't supposed to tell you I think.
