IDEA'S DEVELOPING

I have been looking at more of Cooke's work and discovered this piece of her watercolour, ink and ice paper creation. It has got me thinking that perhaps I could use my original idea of using a photo as the base of my works but work back over into the photo with watercolour to pull my work together.




Earthscape Group

Mixed Media on 4- 5x7 stretched canvases.
[rice papers, acrylic, inks, metallic powders, collage]

MY THOUGHTS ON ELIS COOKE

BLOG ADDRESS - http://www.elis-cooke.com/

I am completely fascinated and in love with Cooke's work. Cooke is a mixed media artist who works alot with ink, watercolours, rice paper and tissue paper on canvas to create her unique and intruging designs.

Her pieces are of an experimental nature that develope as she adds layer and layer of different media.

ELIS COOKE

ALCHEMY


Mixed Media [handmade paper, metallic pigments, acrylic] on 8x8 stretched canvas

" WISE WOMAN II "


Handmade Paper Mixed Media Collage by Mixed Media Collage Artist Elis Cooke ( from the Feminine Wills series )
Media: Handmade and hand cast paper, polymer clay, collage elements, acrylic paint on stretched canvas.



Interpretation Of Art

~ The heart is as fragile as a feather yet so powerful it can catch a wind of a breath and fly into eternity

~ the softness of one’s knowing is sheltered behind the layers of toughened skin

~ purity of enquiry will loosen the aged presumptions and unravel angel feathers in disguise

Secod Series Idea's ALCHEMY

As a second piece of work I have been playing around with the idea of birds in their first stages of life, prefferably eggs. I am thinking about creating another series of photographs on canvas this time of a nest and eggs and perhaps putting other things in with the eggs such as bones or a cracked egg or empty shell. I have a picture in my head of how I want the series to look. I am thinking of setting it up so that I can adjust and work with lighting. I want the photo's to have as warm light on them but still that dark shadowiness.

I want to experiment a bit with this idea and the photoraphy stage of it, such as i could photograph a person holding the nest and work with photoshop. (see photo below)

First Series of Idea's ALCHEMY

The beauty of ink work and watercolours is something that I would very much like to work with. I want to create a series of canvas works using a mixture of different media. These would include photography, ink, watercolours, rice paper collaging and turps rubbing.

I am thinking of taking some landscape photos to use as the background of my pieces of work and perhaps fading them a bit before putting them on canvas so that my top layer will be the main focus. I have been looking at the swallow's flying formation and their beautiful and precise way of moving together would create a beautiful layer on my work if I dotted one of their various flying patterns across the landscape.

Over this, turps rubbing a different colourful bird (but in black and white for turps rubbing), onto each canvas. Then using rice and tissue paper I could create the outline and shape of the bird.I found on Elis Cooke's blog the use of rice paper to create texture before applying water colours.

"I started collaging tissue and rice paper onto the canvas support. While it is still wet I like to introduce the paint [ink, watercolours] so it creeps into the papers creating cool mixtures and textures. Then i will let that dry and have an interesting surface to work on..."

I would then use a similar technique to Cooke's and would work water colours into the paper letting it seep into each other and using darker inks to create lines letting it run down the canvas. Then working back into it with watercolour pencils and gesso. (See art diary)

Here are some pictures from Cooke's blog: