I know very little about composition and so I often get stuck when trying to do collage. As a result, I rarely do collages even though I really love them. So I decided to try the workshop from the Jane Davies Studios called The Keys to Dynamic Composition. She's got a bunch of downloadable workshops on the page, and you can find this one if you scroll down a bit.
So these are my first clumsy efforts from lesson 1. Without giving too much away, one instruction from this first lesson is to work with a limited range of one colour. My first two involve working with warm reds:
My next two efforts involved working with cool greens:
By the time I got to that last one, I had run out of ideas. In fact, this photo is an upside-down version of it, which looks better to my eye than the original, right-side-up version.
So far, I really like the approach; it combines: 1) reading content (in a downloaded pdf), 2) short video demonstrations, 3) doing the exercise(s), and then 4) considering some reflective questions.
In fact, I intend to do one or two more having written a bit (on a different journal page) based on the reflective questions.
It also feels really good to be using my art journal to experiment, learn, practice, reflect and just enjoy playing with shapes and colour. There's something particularly freeing about the very focused approach and not needing it to be a little masterpiece (which isn't really realistic for me anyway).
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