Collagescape Boxes with Hidden Paintings

This latest series of collagescapes are done on small mounted boards (4”x4” by 1 ½” deep).  Furthering the idea that collagescapes are a mix of painting and collage each one has a small hidden painting when you turn it around.  A painting that reflects the place represented in the collagescape on the front of the piece.  From the shores of Lake Tahoe to the pier at China Camp State Park in Marin County to the view under the dome in San Francisco’s City Hall.

Bigger and Blue

Tahoe Collagescape, mixed media on board, 24” x 36”

The latest work in my collagescape series is also the biggest piece so far (and I want to go bigger).  Anyone who has visited Lake Tahoe in person knows there is an intense, rich blue palette found there that is not quite like any other lake.  After painting layers of blue on paper and cutting up the pieces, I reassembled the lake (it’s somewhere close to 20,000 pieces).

Tahoe Collagescape (detail)

Keep Tahoe Blue

Lake Tahoe Collagescape, mixed media on board, 8”x10”

It’s the bluest place in California but the trick is to try to capture all the different shades of blue and the colors of the forests and rocks along the shore.  This is another collagescape piece based on specific places that I love, have photographed and painted often.  Each colleagscape begins with a review of my earlier paintings based on the place as well as photos from visits I have made there.  The next step is to paint the fields of color that, when dry, are cut up and reassembled into a collagescape.

Prints and other accessories of some of the images from this new series are available from Society 6.  Contact me directly regarding the originals. 

The image below shows that this series of pieces are layered and not truly flat.