Wasting art supplies 2

I have been having a moment with my trash art. It is very freeing to know that failure literally does not matter since I’m using materials that would have been in the trash. I mean, what’s the worst that can happen? I throw it all away again?

You may recall from last time my starting on this piece:

It grew organically, a great example of GESTALT/SUCCESSIVE APPROXIMATION. I’d add an element, then let it “sit there and bother me” for a while until I formed an understanding of what needed to happen next.

Here’s where we are at the moment:

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I am tempted to think it’s done and to ABANDON it. We’ll see.

I continued my exploration of Dada with the torn strips of paper…

This time I creased them into standing elements…

Again, I painted the exterior.

I haven’t yet been inspired for the graphic insert. But I did have leftover black paint on the palette, and since it was the not-inexpensive Black 3.0 from Stuart Semple, I figured I should waste it to make sure it didn’t go to waste. The results are actually cool.

In a fit of cleverness, I decided that this one is titled “The Score.” I’m thinking I should go back and hard-edge the black frame. More work is required.

This last one was not as successful. I keep returning to the translucent marker paper in the hopes of finding some really killer use for it, but so far I have failed.

This was nice, I thought:

My original idea was to do something contrastingly colorful and smudgy…

…to layer under the first one…

But the results were less than stellar. More work is required.

I highly recommend my lesson in wasting art supplies as a means of doodling, as it were, and freeing up some creative gestures. If anyone else is having success — or failures — share them in comments, please!