Saturday, September 1, 2012

Trashy Poppies collage

                                                                             12x12 watercolor collage with ink
This view is showing the applied cocktail napkin over Crescent matboard, adhered with half matte medium/half water ratio, with phone book yellow pages added on top of the napkin.  Finished version (top image) flowers were drawn with pencil and heavy watercolor added.  When dry I added touches of black India ink and let portions of the napkin show.  Total time a bit over 3 hours today.  Since all items used were destined for the trashbin I named it Trashy Poppies; just wanted to see if I could make something from nothing.  This work has now been SOLD.
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4 comments:

Christiane Fortin said...

Kay I like this. Love the colors and style.

September 2, 2012 at 6:42 AM
Watermarycolors said...

Beautiful Kate, i love this collages!! :)

September 3, 2012 at 3:20 PM
Watermarycolors said...

im sorry, Kay.. (i called you Kate).. :P

September 3, 2012 at 3:21 PM
Kay Smith said...

Thanks Christiane and Mari. My mom has called me Kate for years, so don't worry.

September 3, 2012 at 8:39 PM

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