Collaborating with Paige Phillips
Whilst working on my own individual studio practice I got talking to fellow student Paige Phillips and we decided to experiment by creating a collaboration painting. We decided to got for a large scale piece so that we could easily work with both styles of our work without having to have the details and subject matter all cramped in together. I liked this way of working as it made us both think more about the piece we were creating, as we can both work in quite a "spur of the moment" way by drawing and painting whatever is on our minds at that moment, whereas with this project we had to plan out the whole of the composition and how the different elements of out painting styles would fit in together.
The main ares that I brought to this piece were the ways in which i applied paint in an abstract expressionist manner and style, as well as my sketchy flower drawings that were an ongoing theme throughout my work. Paige's work also partially follows the same sketchy contemporary drawing style so we used one of her previous drawings that also had an underlying nature theme to it to act as the main area of focus for the foreground of the painting.
We mostly worked in stages and layers because of needing to wait for each layer of paint to dry before adding another so it worked well with us both not having to be getting in each others way whilst working.
After this piece we also decided to do some smaller pieces that were based in our own sketchbook practices where we would start off with some drawings or paintings then we would swap over the works and then add to them in our own styles through adding colour, drawings and even just manipulating what was there before using water soluble pens and paints.
