A very enjoyable afternoon spent extracting some joy out of a miserable day - weatherwise that is. I continued with my 'Abstracting the Landscape' course, led by Anita Reynolds and run by Newlyn School of Art. I had come to a comfortable point with the course - painting acrylic backgrounds and adding wax crayon - and I love doing this. The next step though was a big step, moving onto collaging the elements of a place. I chose the meltwater channel at Aughertree as I know it so well and just bit the bullet! Click here to see the site and the sketches I made on my last visit. These collages are just one step in a series of changes in media and focus that lead to a final piece of work. Each step you take removes you another step from reality, while retaining the sense of place and subject matter ....so the theory goes!
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