Tag: intuitive art

Daily collage practice 2026 – Part 6

Info about this series: At the beginning of the year, I found a little notebook at a thrift shop, and decided to try to do a daily collage to fill it. I created 58 daily collages. I am really proud of the work I did. Not all of the pieces are as successful as the others but they all turned out good in my eyes. Another artist online (I cannot remember who) was talking about using a 3 plus 3 prompt – 3 papers of one color family, and 3 neutrals. So that was my prompt for this series. There are a few pieces where I split one of the papers and repeated it but the prompt was still mainly followed. Most of the papers were created by me with a few exceptions. The collage papers were painted with acrylic paint or ink, or drawn with marker or pen, or made using my gel plate. Some are regular (non-see through) paper, many are tissue or rice papers. I did not add any embellishments besides the pasted paper. This post is part 6 of 6 posts showing all 58 collages in the series. I hope you enjoy.

Thank you for checking out my series. If you have missed any installments make sure to check out the last few days’ posts.

Daily collage practice 2026 – Part 5

Info about this series: At the beginning of the year, I found a little notebook at a thrift shop, and decided to try to do a daily collage to fill it. I created 58 daily collages. I am really proud of the work I did. Not all of the pieces are as successful as the others but they all turned out good in my eyes. Another artist online (I cannot remember who) was talking about using a 3 plus 3 prompt – 3 papers of one color family, and 3 neutrals. So that was my prompt for this series. There are a few pieces where I split one of the papers and repeated it but the prompt was still mainly followed. Most of the papers were created by me with a few exceptions. The collage papers were painted with acrylic paint or ink, or drawn with marker or pen, or made using my gel plate. Some are regular (non-see through) paper, many are tissue or rice papers. I did not add any embellishments besides the pasted paper. This post is part 5 of 6 posts showing all 58 collages in the series. I hope you enjoy.

Thanks for taking a look, I hope you enjoy my collage art. Be sure to check out the other posts in this series.

Daily collage practice 2026 – Part 4

Info about this series: At the beginning of the year, I found a little notebook at a thrift shop, and decided to try to do a daily collage to fill it. I created 58 daily collages. I am really proud of the work I did. Not all of the pieces are as successful as the others but they all turned out good in my eyes. Another artist online (I cannot remember who) was talking about using a 3 plus 3 prompt – 3 papers of one color family, and 3 neutrals. So that was my prompt for this series. There are a few pieces where I split one of the papers and repeated it but the prompt was still mainly followed. Most of the papers were created by me with a few exceptions. The collage papers were painted with acrylic paint or ink, or drawn with marker or pen, or made using my gel plate. Some are regular (non-see through) paper, many are tissue or rice papers. I did not add any embellishments besides the pasted paper. This post is part 4 of 6 posts showing all 58 collages in the series. I hope you enjoy.

I hope you enjoyed seeing my collages. Be sure to check out the other posts in this series (this is post 4 of 6).

Daily collage practice 2026 – Part 3

Info about this series: At the beginning of the year, I found a little notebook at a thrift shop, and decided to try to do a daily collage to fill it. I created 58 daily collages. I am really proud of the work I did. Not all of the pieces are as successful as the others but they all turned out good in my eyes. Another artist online (I cannot remember who) was talking about using a 3 plus 3 prompt – 3 papers of one color family, and 3 neutrals. So that was my prompt for this series. There are a few pieces where I split one of the papers and repeated it but the prompt was still mainly followed. Most of the papers were created by me with a few exceptions. The collage papers were painted with acrylic paint or ink, or drawn with marker or pen, or made using my gel plate. Some are regular (non-see through) paper, many are tissue or rice papers. I did not add any embellishments besides the pasted paper. This post is part 3 of 6 posts showing all 58 collages in the series. I hope you enjoy.

I hope you enjoyed my collages. Please be sure to check out the other installments of this series if you’d like to see the others.

Daily collage practice 2026 – Part 2

Info about this series: At the beginning of the year, I found a little notebook at a thrift shop, and decided to try to do a daily collage to fill it. I created 58 daily collages. I am really proud of the work I did. Not all of the pieces are as successful as the others but they all turned out good in my eyes. Another artist online (I cannot remember who) was talking about using a 3 plus 3 prompt – 3 papers of one color family, and 3 neutrals. So that was my prompt for this series. There are a few pieces where I split one of the papers and repeated it but the prompt was still mainly followed. Most of the papers were created by me with a few exceptions. The collage papers were painted with acrylic paint or ink, or drawn with marker or pen, or made using my gel plate. Some are regular (non-see through) paper, many are tissue or rice papers. I did not add any embellishments besides the pasted paper. This post is part 2 of 6 posts showing all 58 collages in the series. I hope you enjoy.

Daily collage practice 2026 – Part 1

At the beginning of the year, I found a little notebook at a thrift shop, and decided to try to do a daily collage to fill it. I created 58 daily collages. This post is the start of the series of all of them. I am really proud of the work I did. Not all of the pieces are as successful as the others but they all turned out good in my eyes. Another artist online (I cannot remember who) was talking about using a 3 plus 3 prompt – 3 papers of one color family, and 3 neutrals. So that was my prompt for this series. There are a few pieces where I split one of the papers and repeated it but the prompt was still mainly followed. Most of the papers were created by me with a few exceptions. The collage papers were painted with acrylic paint or ink, or drawn with marker or pen, or made using my gel plate. Some are regular (non-see through) paper, many are tissue or rice papers. I did not add any embellishments besides the pasted paper. Below are the first 10 of the 58 I created. I hope you enjoy.

Thank you for checking out my collage series. I will post the others as well.

Fun with ink and watercolor

I have been doing some experiments lately with watercolor and pen, and with water-based inks. I like the intensity of the colors I get with inks, although I don’t have as many colors (I buy small bottles of ink). It’s a lot of fun just to play around with the colors. I also tried putting a resist onto pages first with white oil pastel before applying ink. Take a look at my creations:

Here is the first experiment I did. I put blocks of color down all over the page, let it dry, and then went back in with pens.
Here is another with color blocks / splotches, and then using pen for markmaking.
Here I played around with inks. As you can see the colors are a lot more intense. I think you need to add a lot of water for layering / watercolor effects. I added some water soluble crayon to this while the ink was still wet.
Here you can see the resist from the oil pastels coming through. I love how the inks create different effects as they dry.
Here is another with inks and water soluble crayon (the black marks on this one).
This is my favorite from this batch. Although it’s abstract I feel like I’m looking at a desert scene here. I tried the oil pastel effect here, but also on top of one layer of ink (in the orange in the middle foreground) – it gives a cool effect here.

I don’t do a lot of watercolor painting typically but I love how it looks so it’s fun to experiment with it a bit. It’s also a bit meditative to just paint and add intuitive marks. Some of these I may cut up and put into collage, some I may keep as they are. What do you think? Do you like the intensity of the inks or do you prefer the more muted effect of watercolors?

Sketchbook collage 12/13/25

Here is a new sketchbook page I made yesterday. My process (for most of my art) is to work intuitively, and just let the collage happen on its own without much pre-planning. I started by just picking some colors, I was going for green and teal, but I didn’t have any collage papers in teal. So I went for blue and green instead. I grabbed out 5 different papers from my homemade collage paper stash. I also found a picture with someone’s face and so that kind of set the tone at the end with all the eyes. I finished with some Posca pens at the end. I’m really drawn to eyes and they show up in my work a lot. I like how this turned out.