I have been working to include collage into my ink sketches. Trying to use the collage element as a colour to make the ink stand out. This boat is from my Lockdown sketchbook when we spent a week in Weymouth. What I like about Weymouth is the boats and the buoy's that hang off of them.
I am using sugar paper as backgrounds as I like the idea that the paper will fade over time revealing the gouache painting.
The big question in this painting is do I use the dog cut-out or not!
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.
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.
