acrylic inks, gesso, collage on w/c paper, 10 X 11″
hang it up with pins
move it around
be true to what you see and feel
even with a storm at sea,
waves rolling in and
people running in fear,
you’ve got your own drama to watch
stay close to it
pin it here, pin it there
if it clashes, surprises or compels
you have found its target
Four of us in the new Monday Afternoon Muse Group had seen the movie Matisse at Tate Modern and MoMA and were beyond inspired by his “cut outs” art created in the last years of his life. To watch him confined to his chair or bed, wielding enormous dressmaker’s sheers, cutting into painted paper and creating wall sized vibrant gardens of colorful shapes, was enough to set ones fingers to itching for a pair of scissors! So the lesson was to paint two paintings quickly using the same color scheme and to cut shapes out of one to collage onto the other.
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