While laying on the couch this week, again, I’ve not been feeling well, I had the desire to paint but didn’t know what to paint and knew it’d be too messy to try to paint while on the couch.  I took out my Sharpie and started drawing out random objects of inspiration on a small 11” x 14” canvas. There were some newspapers around me and I didn’t have much desire to leaf through them or cut out parts of them to make a collage.  I did, however, feel like collaging.  So what developed is what I now call a “Mock Collage.”  Basically, my Sharpie collaged around the canvas for me. 

The words on the canvas come from the page of newspaper that was opened and in front of me.  The girl in the upper right corner came from inspiration from my previous re-make of the Van Dongen “Corn Poppy.”  In the upper left corner are the beads that were hanging in the Houston Museum of Fine Arts.  Their shape represents “woman,” and this necklace was worn by the women in some ancient group of people...of course, with my poor ability to retain knowledge of history, I can’t tell you WHO those people were.  My Livestrong bracelet gets a prominent place in this work.  I like the CITGO sign with the “Win Win Win” below it, so that also garnered a position in my collage.  Of course, my trusty iPhone.  So I kind of got writing out words and pictures and then stopped.  Then the other night, I was in the mood to paint, but didn’t feel like finishing the “collage” so I simply started painting parts of it. 

SO, this remains an incomplete Mock Collage!  There will be more words, more visual stimuli and more sharpie usage in the future.  This work represents where I’ve been this week...not far from the couch.  It’s been fun!  I may mock collage more in the future.