TARGETING COLLAGED CARDS!

When I am not sure what to do next, I make some cards!  The 'Happy Birthday' card with the grumpy looking fish is for my grandson.  I hope he likes it!  When you need to paint the background for one card, you might as well cut it up and make four collaged cards...

Lately, I have been looking at pop art and the work of Jasper Johns and Peter Blake.  This reminded me that my favourite motif from that era is the target, so with the help of punches, I have started using it in my cards.

MORE COLOUR EXPLORATIONS

I love the target grid paintings of Sir Terry Frost so I used this format to compare three colours - turquoise, pink and green.  I changed the value of the colours and put them together so when they are in the grid format it was interesting to see what parts of the target recede and what parts come forward.  Those targets with colours of similar characteristics as the background, merge more than those who don't.

The targets were painted with acrylics and then enhanced with stencilling and stamping patterns in the same acrylic colours to give some extra depth.