Collaged Portraits: Series or New Direction?

Buttercup

acrylic mixed media collage portrait painting
9×12 on canvas panel

So what’s up with these collaged paintings I’ve been doing? Is it a new direction or a series? Someone on FB said that it seems like I’m going in a new direction with my art with the past few collage portraits I’ve done. I don’t know if that’s true or not. I actually used to do collages before I ever started painting, like back in the 90s, so this isn’t really new for me. I’ve always used paper in my paintings because I don’t like painting directly on canvas. It’s not smooth enough for my liking. The only difference lately.. I’m now leaving the paper exposed, and not covering it up with paint.

So, new direction or series? I’m not sure. Sometimes, I think I’m going off in a new direction when really it turns out to be a large body of work, and I end up calling it a series, instead. How do I know the difference?

Well, a series ends when I get bored, and I have to move on to something different. Like, I did a series of golf paintings with palette knives. I don’t want to paint golf paintings every day, or ever again, really. lol So, it was a series. It ended when I got bored, and decided it was time to move on.

A new direction keeps going, grows, and expands. What I’m doing now could be a new direction, I suppose. I’m looking at it more like a slight change in how I’m doing things. I’m no longer covering all the collage up with paint, but I’m more or less doing the same thing I always did..painting portraits.

Buttercup Available on Etsy or directly through me.

There are two great painting challenges going on this month. 30 Paintings in 30 Days on Leslie Saeta’s blog, Slices of Life and Ayala Art‘s 29 Faces Challenge. I’ll be posting to both challenges, and here on my blog every day.

My theme is Photobooth Collage Portraits. 🙂 I’ll be (loosely) using photobooth photos that I find online for my reference photos.

Happy PPF, y’all.

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