#13 & #14 && on to other work ethic's...

#13 Collage, drawing... upper detail

i can smell the sprinkler watering the back lawn...
it must be close to spring because the lawn was mowed last weekend, and now there are green patches coming through the brown winter grass.
we have had a warm pre-spring warm-up the past week or so, there will always be more cold, rain and snow before and into May, but for the most part the molasses is starting to come out of the winter boot. Why we are even duct taping the holes in the white plastic fence, with white duct tape of course!




going back to FS work this coming Monday, 3/19, in PP#6, then in two weeks computer access and back to full time physical work, 4/3, and prepare the Visitor Center to open Good Friday 4/14 for the Easter weekend. i must start now moving from winter/art work ethic... to forest service work ethic... early morning wake ups and on the clock by 0800 hrs. five days a week. This has been a very busy winter and it seems to have gone faster then past winters. I have completed 20 Collages since November of 2016, will need to sit down with all of the work together and check-it-out, the work has changed from the first too last, right now i have got to go move the sprinkler water in the back yard... the water is still winter cold even with the warm weather outside, great drinking water, but not for running through the sprinkler just yet!

#13 Collage, drawing. 2017

Well here is #13 full blown, its kind of a mix of the twelve before it, all the "kids" from the same family,  learning a little bit more with each one... the pieces are starting to become more personal as i look at them once completed... do not remember if i mentioned this before, each of the collages is 8.5" x 11"... have tried to have all the same size so i can use the preexisting frames (15) that i have... so no one of them has a permanent frame, unless it goes away to live with someone else that wants the frame. Although with my frame around the collage you get the "whole story" so to speak.

#14 Collage, drawing.  a work in process...

#14  still in process... all seven days of the week are here... somebody must know i am going back to work soon. The colors on the shield/sails are the four directional colors i have assigned to red canyon, the base image was made there... the ideas and insights for these pieces come so fast that i have to just get them together as a piece without much thought or thinking about it, or i will lose the idea, and am compelled to move on. There are also things that happen to the piece that i have no control over and so i keep working, over, on, and in most cases with it, i believe that comes from my clay background... no such thing as a mistake, learn, use it, and move on.

#14 Collage, drawing, detail.    "Friday"

Well this is "Friday" one of my sail people...
you can spot him/her/it in the image above...
the graphic image on the sail, and all the rest of the images on the days are quite spontaneous in the rush of ideas and insights...
"Sunday" is in the lower right of the collage and to me is a her... "Monday" above, "Tuesday" above, "Wednesday" to the left, and left again "Thursday" and you can follow from there... the black& white dotted line... came from a bygone era in my work, why here ????

That's it for this go around... the back yard sprinkler is click-click-clicking my name so i must move on...

Stop back by when you get some time and see whats
going on... till then    CHEERS