Painterly Collages

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Ripping the magazine, the torn paper becomes a daub of paint, and I feel a sense of freedom. As my confidence grows in using this medium, I enjoy how the colleges are becoming more painterly and the structures increasingly complex.

Collage..

Collage..

Collage.

Collage..

Collage.

Generative Fill

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I’ve been deep in proposal writing over the last few weeks, and with only a limited capacity for screen time, something had to give – hence no newsletters.

Now I’m out on the other side of the proposal (and with my post-concussion symptoms slowly improving), I thought I’d say hi!

Yesterday I started to play with Adobe Photoshop’s Generative Fill feature (in beta). It’s pretty bonkers. You can take an existing image, expand the canvas, click the Generative Fill button and have the computer generate a fill based on the image. People have been taking famous record sleeves and generating what might exist beyond the frame.

I thought I’d do the same for one of my daily drawings. Here’s a step-by-step with a couple of variations for the final image.

Generative drawing step 1.

Generative drawing step 2.

Generative drawing step 3.

Generative drawing step 3 variation.

Pushing the edges

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Daily drawing.

Daily drawing.

The fifteen-minute daily drawings continue. I’m done with the drawing at around 10 minutes, yet I have resisted reducing my drawing time.

While a set of 10-minute drawings might be interesting, the 15 minutes force the drawings (and me) to places I’m unfamiliar with.

The additional five minutes means overworking the drawing is probable, and this is ok. I’m finding out where the edges are, and by willingly going over them, I create something new and unexpected.