Collage 19

Yesterday Lynn, Lulu and I spent the day together in the studio. We have finished about 56 collages at this point, although we are still waiting for Melissa, my studio mate, to finish #36. We have limited ourselves to just a few paint colors: chrome green, burnt sienna, transparent gold and cadmium red. We also use black and white. It is amazing how much you can do with a very limited palette. Yesterday Lynn got inspired to work in gray, so we used a lot of that. Lulu is also enamored with the luscious orange, the result of the transparent gold and cadmium red.

Working together on this project is interesting on many levels. A new one we discussed yesterday was how this allows us a new level of intimacy with each other. We all work in our unique ways which is a mirror of who we are in the rest of our lives. We've know each other for 30 years, and yet we are discovering each other in fresh ways.

Lola Baltzell

from page 45-46 of original text

made 3/12/10

collage and acrylic paint on paper