Our Let's Face It 2022 lesson this week was with Dina Wakley, who does a lot of abstract multimedia work, sometimes including figures and faces, oftentimes with collage, writing, and random printing/scribbling included. This is a hard one for me, but I gave it a shot.
I decided to add an extra something to her lesson by first employing a stenciled background before putting on the collage, and although it was initially intended as a kind of marbled sky look, it actually worked into my final concept, which was more a cyclone effect.
She suggested using some poses from fashion magazines to come up with the blocked-out painted figure of the person, which was probably a mistake for me, the literalist, because I added in clothing outlines instead of just sticking to the basic form. But I had fun with the collaged words and with the "ischemic" writing, which was a new term to me—it's basically giving the appearance of something written in cursive, but without including discernible words or language.
My final result felt to me like a person caught up in a storm of words, which was perfect considering I was having an extended and somewhat contentious discussion on Facebook at the same time as I was making this piece of "art."
"Cyclone"—stencil, gesso, collage, acrylic paints, Stabilo All, pen, on 140-lb. coldpress watercolor paper, 9x12 inches.
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