Back room

Collage is dynamic!  The fun thing with blu-tak is that you can keep changing the collage (watch out for that pesky oil residue) It shifts the look and feel of the work.

My first intention was the female form reaching for something elusive....  The heat and humidity of the last few weeks of January meant that this feeling shifted......

Sapping humidity prevails...

There is an occasional caress of a soft breeze in the trees, the poignant call of the black cockatoo, a TV noise… a light shines out exposing some small urban drama and the river flushes through and on…. 

'Backroom' 2015 pencil, oil pastel, collage 122cmh x 86cmw 

I had to commit eventually!  Here is the final work.

'Backroom' pencil drawing, collage, oil pastel, 122cmh x 86cmw, 2015