Getting back to my Mountain collage series
Last year I started a project to create 40 collages on a theme. I chose 40 because that was the number of pieces that came in a pack of chipboard that I was using as backers to glue everything to. I made it through about 23, before I lost momentum. First it started to feel repetitive, then I ended up taking classes over the summer, going on vacation, and taking up painting in August which possessed me until the beginning of the year. I was thinking that I was done with the mountain collages. Aiming for 40 and doing 23 was a pretty good run!
But this month I’ve been floundering around trying to figure out what to do next. I have a few ideas, but nothing that has really gelled yet, so I decided to retrench a little bit and finish the Mountain collage series, while I figure out what my next project is.
I spent a whole day reassembling all the stuff that it took me to make these things: painting the sky backgrounds, gluing them to a backer, making paper to use for the mountains, and finding all of the supplies I’d used last year, which had been scattered to several boxes. Then finally, I made a collage!
My first set of 23 were about 9″ x 11″, and I decided that in order to portray more majestic mountains, I should work a little bit larger, so this next set is going to be around 11″ x 14″. I almost picked up where I left off, but I learned a lot even in this one collage, about how to make the paper and draw mountains, which I hope to improve upon in the next one.
The rest of the chipboard shall be used for something else.
