watercolor collage

I’ve been painting quite a bit with my new watercolors over the past few days. I’m still getting used to the new colors, but so far I’m loving them. I mentioned the test sheet I made when I first got all my new colors, but other than being very colorful, I didn’t find it all that useful.

I didn’t know what all the colors would look like on the paper as I painted them. When I was done, I realized I would prefer to arrange them a little differently, so I decided not to use sheet for a reference.

Since the colors and textures looked so nice, I thought I might as well make something out of the sheet, so I cut the dots apart.

I thought about arranging these cut up dots as part of a collage, but then I got the idea to cut out small rectangles of just the colors.

It’s a simple collage, but I really love how colorful it is. I have enough little “chips” to make one more stacked tower, so this isn’t technically finished, but I wanted to share what I have so far. If inspiration strikes after the three towers are in place, maybe I’ll add some other drawn details.

After finishing the collage for the night, I didn’t want to set it aside where I might forget about it. I took down the painting that was hanging above my desk and affixed the collage, along with several other recent paintings, to the wall with some removable adhesive putty.

I haven’t scanned any of these latest paintings because they are all just a bit too big for my scanner. I might be able to trim some of them down just a bit so that they’ll fit, so you may be seeing full size images of them soon.

I’d been meaning to figure out some way of having an “inspiration wall” and this seems to be a good solution. So far it’s been really nice to have some of my work actually up on the wall, rather than tucked away in a filing drawer.