{"id":9297,"date":"2017-07-19T10:41:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T14:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=9297"},"modified":"2025-10-30T12:19:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T16:19:38","slug":"collage-en-plein-air-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/9297","title":{"rendered":"Collage En Plein Air ~ second chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cDetached from judgement, hesitation, fear of failure or imitation, one embraces the moment and the place, as revealed in value, color, and shape \u2014 the impossible can happen and the spirit of the place appears as if by magic.\u201d
\n\u2014Dean Taylor Drewyer
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I joined the Plein Air Artists of Central Kentucky<\/a> on one of their regular \u201cart-outs\u201d with a totally different system than I used in my first venture. Louis Degni<\/a> is marketing an outdoor kit for collage artists that he calls the \u201cSt Hilaire System\u201d (named for artist Elizabeth St Hilaire<\/a>). \"John<\/a>His design may work fine, but the idea of using cups to control available source paper did not appeal to me, so I put together a different configuration based on a re-purposed plastic dish drainer. Using custom-cut folders fitted to the 14 dish slots, I have an array of potential ingredients that are fully protected from the wind. Needless to say, even a mild breeze can play the devil with small scraps of paper. After I got to the site and picked my location, I sorted through a spectrum of colors to choose a palette. \"John<\/a> A central compartment between the little folders provides storage for this selected material under the large clipboard that secures my working surface. Bottles with two different adhesives fit handily into what was originally meant to hold kitchen flatware. The scale is ideal for a collage miniature. Additional refinements are anticipated, especially if I decide to increase the working dimensions, but I now have a solid approach that allows me to concentrate on capturing the essence of the scene.<\/p>\n

The hospitality extended by our hosts for the day was remarkable. I was free to roam the property and found a grape arbor that had seen better days, but still looked handsome in a patch of sunlight. My subject may have been too complex for the time slot, or, more likely, the process remains slow, since my layering method is still inefficient. I wasn\u2019t able to complete all the foliage on site, so I had to spend some studio time the following day to finish up. I\u2019ll admit to being pleased with the results, although I hadn\u2019t expected to be satisfied with my early attempts. I have no idea where this is heading, but I\u2019m happy to follow my enthusiasm to the next phase!
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\n\"Margo\u2019s<\/a><\/p>\n

Margo\u2019s Arbor<\/em><\/strong>
\nplein air collage miniature by J A Dixon
\n4.625 x 4.625 inches<\/p>\n

\u2022  S O L D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cDetached from judgement, hesitation, fear of failure or imitation, one embraces the moment and the place, as revealed in value, color, and shape \u2014 the impossible can happen and the spirit of the place appears as if by magic.\u201d \u2014Dean Taylor Drewyer   I joined the Plein Air Artists of Central Kentucky on one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,1,216,22,18,249,35,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9297"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20176,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9297\/revisions\/20176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}