Grids for Paintings: Creating Collage Patterns

Video Transcript

"Another fix on this whole grid organization kind of thing is actually a way to organize a collage. And I, what I've done is I found these two pictures and I'm going to cut them up and recombine them. And I'm going to do that using a grid system, so that there's some kind of cohesion to the design. So what I've done here is I've cut them into strips. I'm going to have long rectangles be my grid. And I'm going to sort of reconstitute the picture setting out these strips. And this is very very simple. It's a way to sort of start combining ideas, make the brain work a little harder because you're going, you know, you want to try to figure out what the image is. It kind of explodes images and then your eyes kind of want to put them back together again. And that's an interesting kind of gestalt to work with. I chose these two images because they're both sort of, of very industrial items and they have some interesting linear elements in them that kind of might help the design stay together and they both have some yellow. If your images get too disparate then it doesn't really make sense. But you can see that you could take this, you could weave it. You know, you could cut these into smaller squares and then you can start working with the alternating, the alternating pattern as well and get very complicated in this."