Weekend Collage Experiment

 I tried following an article from the Artist magazine (Create a collage of costal life, Mike Bernard, Summer 2021issue) to help me understand the process for collage. 

I'm not sure that the result was what I intended but I love the use of the word Wellbeing in the clouds and you can see text throughout the image. 

Mike Bernard uses acrylic inks and lighter layers of paint in his images and I am going to try some smaller works using this technique. 

My application of acrylic paint was heavier than I intended and I had to wash back into the paint to expose the text and collage beneath. Originally I had kept the colours to a minimum but I added a green towards the end as the image felt too cold and grey. 

Trees in the landscape

 I have always found trees to be a problem in the landscape, making them look believable. So I have started to focus more effort to recording them in sketches. 

This is a page from my sketch book illustrating the trees I see on my lunch time walk. I've used procreate to create colourful background to emphasise the form of the trees.