21/11/2010: Watercolour Challenge

I’ve now begun to create abstract collages using different pieces of card cut into random or at least semi-random shapes. I am using watercolours to create mottled textures for some of the cards and others are being inked or stained. My current aim is to explore methods of chance in relation to composition and experiment with varying levels of both. The compositional idea initially came from browsing some works of Hans Arp:

Below: Before My Birth, 1914