POPPIES by db Waterman

The original work, a collage on paper, is an award-winning work of art during a collage exhibition in France, 2019.A girl is having fun with her skipping rope on a hot summer day, in a summer landscape full of poppies. A retro image of a child playing. Something that used to be very common, but is rarely seen now.
I use photos, paper, acrylic paint, pastels, charcoal, ink and pencil in my works.
I like the look of weathered walls covered in peeling paint and old posters. It is a source of inspiration for my artworks. My paintings explore the dissonance between old materials and new materials, woven in the most beautiful way that dreamy and melancholic images can create.
Original work, collage on paper.
Used materials:
paper, photo, acrylic, glue, varnish

This artwork is offered by db Waterman

I remembered that as a young girl I so much liked to cut images from magazines to paste them into school agendas, scrapbooks and even on my bedroom door. Add to this the fascination I always had for walls filled with old posters, flaking paint, scrappy billboards and weathered paint, it opened an unexpected door for completely new opportunities. Completely unintended I found a new way of working, I felt pleasurably and comfortably at home in. What started out as copying old walls with worn out posters has grown into many series of new visual storytelling. Not simply just eclecticism, but bringing together many seemingly incoherent story lines into one completely new story, my own personal story. Initially it lacked the one thing that is important to me, the transparency that normally only is possible with the use of watercolor. The unforgiving layering of transparent watercolors is a challenge I would not want to miss and after a lot of trial and error I finally succeeded in getting the collages as transparent as a watercolor. Every layer of paper, oil, acrylic, pencil, crayon, ballpoint, watercolor, ink, charcoal and whatever else I use, remains visible in the artwork. You can imagine it made me feel the queen of the ball !

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