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Kris Stanton
Paper Collage
I would describe my technique as "painting with paper". Collage is a wonderful technique that allows for a lot of experimentation and is very forgiving. You can create textures, subtle shading and great depth of field. If you don't like something that you have done you can take it off immediately, you can tear or cut it off after it has dried or you can cover it up. Papers come in many colors and all kinds of thicknesses from tissue paper to card stock.
I purchase my paper from Creative Papers Online. They have a wide variety and the papers are shipped beautifully and arrive with great speed.
The "In Progress" page is a great place to learn a technique and maybe open a door to new discovery. You may be inspired to try something new when you see the process. Check back to see finished projects. Keep creating! If you have a suggestion on what you would like to see on this page please email me at stantonka@cinci.rr.com. |
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Image 1
This collage piece is meant to propose the idea that once a need is filled the rest is excess...overflow. What you see in progress here is a set of hands with water pouring down, filling the cupped hands and then flowing over and through. Our lives can hold only so much. We need only what we need - the rest is just "stuff".
I am creating the hands on a piece of drawing paper. The background is going to be abstract and will be done on a canvas. I will then attach the hands with gel medium and integrate the edges into the background.
Collage work is so much fun and you can really get lost in the little pieces of paper. A new collage always looks terrible before it starts to come together. The key is to keep going and see the finished piece in your mind. It's a layering process. It's meditative. Ahhhh... |
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Image 2
Here I have added more detail to the hands. I am creating volume to the hands by using light and dark papers. I am also trying to keep the hands looking gentle so I am softening edges and using paper with lots of fibers. |
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Image 3
The water needs to give the illusion of flowing through the hands. I am creating the direction of the flow with shapes and individual fibers. I want to establish a swirling and puddling effect in the center of the hands - and then the water moves on. |
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Image 4
I have continued to work on the water flowing through the hands. I am contemplating the background. I knew that I wanted to complete the hands separately from the background for this piece. The hands and water make a kind of icon. I wanted them to have the feeling that the image stands for something - for that fact that when you have enough...stop. |
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Image 5
"More than Enough" is complete. The background is calming but has hidden blocks of color to denote the temptations of this world to buy more and more stuff. We sometimes buy and accumulate things without even giving it much thought. The base brown color calls to us to reign it in and get some perspective. Buy something because you love it and want it in your life. We need to center ourselves and realize, be aware of, when we have enough.
This piece is complete and is available for purchase (if you love it!) through Sweet Art of Mine.
$285
18 x 24 |
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