Something New

I am starting to work out some ideas for a call for Artists that has just been released by Liberty Town Gallery in Fredericksburg, Virginia. SO, last evening, with this in mind, I started messing around. I dragged out paper bits, a canvas that I bought ages ago, some of my acrylic paints and the gel medium. I started by tearing up pages of all kinds of text into small rectangles roughly the same size. Then I sketched out a basic plan right on the canvas and started applying the text swatches with the gel medium. I wanted a linear background so I cut up strips in various widths from a very old book of maps and pasted them down as well. This call for art is titled "A Feast For The Eyes" and is meant to be anything about food. I have had a very hard time getting a decent pear this year, you know the kind that I mean; good flavor, nice texture and juicy!!! Every one that I have tried has been grainy and dry- YUCK! I love the shape of the pear and I have been seeing the shape all over the place. You might say that I have developed pears on the brain. So I decided that the collage was going to be about pears. I ripped out pages from an old cookbook with recipes and or instructions about choosing pears and preparing pears.

Here is a picture of my first stopping point. (shown sideways thanks to Blogger-GRRRRR!!!)

Then I began to work on the pears themselves and stopped again.

Well this is ok, but It needed more. So I wnet at it with a charcoal pencil.

Better, better, still not sure that it is done.

Here is a detail shot.

I need to let this be for a bit and visit it every once in awhile and see what it tells me. I had fun with this and I am planning to work on some more, maybe I will look at some other fruits!!

iIwould love to know what you think amd any suggestions about what the collage needs would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks for your input!!

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