Luckily for me as I was starting to think about more collage studies for this part of the course, I went on a very inspiring day workshop with Angela Oswald.
We did two exercises
The first involved writing words on a theme on a large sheet of paper and passing it round the room for other people to add their words. When we got our own piece back we selected a square that we found interesting and overlaid different translucent papers onto which we had traced our written design.
For the second exercise we were given photocopies of pictures through a microscope and asked to quickly draw a section, select an interesting square and then to colour in positive and negative shapes.
These shapes were then used as a pattern to cut from the photocopies and other black and white papers to create a collage.
The finished collage shown above with a close up really inspired me to think about negative shapes when I work on the next three collage studies.
Paper and stitch 