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Your work has influenced me so much over the past few months. I was mostly a digital artist before, but now I've been messing with all sorts of traditional mediums that I had never explored before. I've been loving making collage out of vintage horror comic print outs mixed with 40s and 50s advertising, and just random garbage I find around town. I've become this little pack rat, that's constantly collecting bits and pieces of paper to add texture to my work. I very much appreciate you sharing your art process and experiments with us.
That was so helpful, I like the idea of putting down a lot of layers that just don't matter at first because I am always afraid of ruining what I put down and dont want to cover anything too early.
Really kind Deanna, i did get really absorbed by this one. Not often I have a clear idea of what I'm aiming for from the start, but I did in this case!!!!
Hi Brygia, I think you'll love the technique, especially with your beautiful hand printed papers and collage materials. I'm going to start a much bigger one using some of those posters I gathered in your home city!!!! Can't tell you how much I love Berlin!!!
W. O. W. This is so frustrating, in a way: I basically want to collect everything you make! ...Except, of course, for the fact that I think your work deserves the widest possible audience. I particularly enjoy the idiosyncratic touch you bring to this process, with the selective cutting and peeling and replacing and coloring and covering and... all the rest of it. I also love the contrast and balance between the specificity of message in your percent sign and selection of materials, against the randomness of the pattern you create with it--both of which actually contribute clarity to the intended meaning. I sometimes feel frustrated by many people's incorporation of alphabet stencils, in rote order, when specific text could be so much more enriching to their work. Watching how you developed the whole idea, and hearing your reflections on the developing intention as you worked, was both very useful and insight-provoking. The work itself reminds me in some ways of the one in your "Gelli print 'scrap' pattern collage idea" episode. I think this work is more highly-developed, however. I love the idea of customizing your materials by printing on the found papers that further reinforce your theme and statement, and the experiment with varying the scale. The way you adapted the found posters to the specifics of your work was also enlightening. Also, the idea of taking one or more rubbings, throughout the process. Brilliant! Definitely stashing those thoughts away for future use. Also appreciate the sense you give of how, and how long, you worked on this piece. That's key information that often gets overlooked. It's rather relieving to know that this actually took some serious investment of time, beyond what we see on screen. Also, it's helpful realizing this is a process that permits intermittent work sessions. Always useful when dealing with Real Life. Wonderful, wonderful video. Thank you yet again!
Helllo xenopticon, as ever, you've picked up on loads that i'm perhaps not even aware of when making! it's kind of like when I was back in collage and I took my work to class crits!! really valuable to me, thanks. i wasn't sure how this video or process would go down and am really pleased there are collage / decollage fans out there - i could literally spend days glueing, peeling, cutting!!
I am fairly new to collage and I had been struggling with piecing together mid-century designs created with a gelli-plate which was inspired by Tara Axford via GPS ( I'll be working my way through everyone's video as time allows). Now that I've watched this fab video I'm going to try incorporating your technique as the patterns I created are very repetitive and I feel I can achieve a far more interesting outcome than just by matching pieces of paper together (Tara does it beautifully). The Gelli plate will be out again to create more papers on the same theme to allow for cutting, shaping, adding, discarding... the list goes on, so much fun. Thank you so much for sharing all your art and inspiring ideas :)
I’ve been watching your videos for months now, and I love them all. They always manage to challenge me to think of new approaches, and they always pique my curiosity for new techniques. But this collage/decollage video is my absolute favorite! This has given me ideas that will feed me for weeks to come. Thank you for all your videos!
I'm so pleased you enjoyed this one Christine, wasn't sure if it would appeal but folks seem to like the techniques! Will have the sander out again on the weekend!!!
Love your stencil/ collage/ decollage work, and the clarity of your process demonstrations- thank you! I have physical issues with my hands, but I thought of a solution: using Illustrator or Photoshop, I reduce an image to two color, then to an outline. I bring this into the cricut workspace and the machine can cut the image for me. I've been using the thick covers of magazines as the stencil material, holds up to several prints.
@@yeatesmakes Yes, please add more of anything you feel like posting actually. You explain all your processes so easily and I for one get a lot of inspiration from just watching and absorbing your ideas, many of which are completely new to me. I never thought of adding all those different layers of collage and then sanding them down, and stripping some of the layers out.... brill. Gotta try it.
Your control of a lot of associated processes creates a singular format. This is really a collage sculpture that digs deep into the past and renews the graphic tradition. The intensity of your approach is in direct contrast to the relaxing elemental output of gelli printer Art Whisperer, whose work I appreciate for different reasons. I could imagine many artists who work in an opposite way wanting to collect your work for the very reason it is not like theirs but after so much focus and engagement I can imagine you would not let any piece go lightly. Hopefully curators are also watching.
I really liked it and then you started sanding and was afraid you were overworking it. You added the bits of red and color, and it just popped . Very nice
This was enjoyable. I found your creative thought processes while you were working through your project, very interesting. Thank you for letting us into your head
One of the most important takeaways for me from observing your process is such an impressive illustration of the value of NOT letting yourself get all precious about what you’ve already put down! (HA! Literally as I’m typing this you said it out loud 😄). I often get afraid of ruining some element that I genuinely do like, but I think I close off a lot of possibilities by holding onto one stage of a project while simultaneously (in theory ) trying to take it forward… ALSO! Seeing that gorgeous rubbing has reminded me that I really have to figure out why I haven’t yet had any success with using crayon rubbings on the gel plate! So frustrating, because they have just an infinite range of possibilities for what they can bring to gel printed imagery, if I can only get the technique to actually work!
Heavy rubbing and a thin layer of paint Stella. it's funny, i've shelved the gel plate for image transfer because we have a heat wave in the UK and I reckon it's messing with the already short window this process allows!!!! Glad you liked the collage. i guess in art, like life, you got to be prepared to let go!!!! Lovely comment, thanks Stella : )
@@yeatesmakes good luck with that heat wave! It’s definitely frustrating how the gel plate is so extremely versatile but also deeply finicky in a way that means a technique that was working brilliantly yesterday could suddenly become a no-go and it’s not at all obvious why (heat waves being an exception where you know what’s going on 😁)
Where heat waves and other vagaries are concerned, you might try using a retarder in your acrylics, to keep them workable for longer. This would, of course, also mean they need extra drying time for those parts of a process that require dry paint, such as when you pull a transfer image with a second color.
I am so inspired by your work - you reminded me how much I love collage (and printmaking) and how much I miss it. Thank you for sharing! Love what you create!
Wow! That's definitely a process! Very clearly explained. I liked how the pieces you cut at the end looked like they were coming up from underneath. Tfs
YES! Just bought some canvas panels with no purpose in mind, about the same time you posted this. There's (at least one) American political issues that deserve this treatment. These are certainly, like your finance and economics, issues that confuse me. Have done a lot of covering up in collage but not the deconstructing. This is a great process and great process video. Thanks.
I'm new to decollage and love how you've used it in this video. The overprint of repeated graphic pattern is something new to me as well, and I'll definitely try. Thanks for the great demo, tips and tricks!
great to hear! the overprint idea I have been playing with for a while and making this vid has given me loads of fresh momentum for larger scale pieces.
It works!!!!! I’m enjoying it so much…..from the random collage and paint layers to cutting out the shapes….it’s amazing like doing surgery!!!! Thank you for the idea.
Love your use of the orbital sander to smooth and knock back collaged elements. I've used my orbital sander to make large scale felt images with wool roving atop fine nylon mesh.
Love that technique. Looks amazing! Cool development...I am inspired to go back to collage. Haven't done some in a while. Saw some techniques I never considered...
Just a great process and so generous with your knowledge . Many thanks. I have donated a very small amount -as much as I can afford but would be very happy to use affiliate links to art supplies if you could set that up for us all. I am sure your viewers would be supportive also.
Hugely appreciated, thank you JAM. Glad you enjoyed the process - I've been really surprised at how many people it resonated with. Enthusiasm for collage is alive and kicking!
if you get chance to see his work in person, you must. His work, and Anselm Kiefer's, are the artists I would travel LONG distances to see!!!! For me, they are the most engaging contemporary artists out there.
I had a very limited concept of collage. Again you shine a little light into my brain. Besides, it is always so exiting to watch an artist at work. Thanks, and all the best.
Hi there Marijke, collage is mind boggling in it's possibilities! I use it some much as part of mixed media approaches so it was lovely just to make a piece purely from collage for a change! Start playing...
Many thanks for this demo. I wish I had a British accent! Lol But really, I have been doing ripped layers of paper, torn off paint layers and restuck them in abstracts, but THIS is a step wayyyy up! Doing this today in my RV art space!
Great timing - I ‘ve always been intrigued by found decollage on billboards and recently try to create them from scratch. Your work is enchanting and encouraging. Thanks. Mille Grazie! ✂️🎨🎶👏
Hi Anna, I think I have the patience because the early stages of this process are really quick and messy and then you sort of ease into the cutting. it helps that i just love cutting though, especially when i'm cutting into things and there's a bit of mystery and i'm not sure what's to be revealed!
Just love your work SOOOO much!! You share so many inspirational methods and techniques and I always love the finished pieces. Thank you once again for taking the time to do this 😁
