Generating ideas with collage cropping

I love looking for crops of compositions that I enjoy. It's a great way to discover new ideas and figure out what you love and don't love. I really quite like these crops from my recent collaged artworks.

These crops are from my collage artwork, “Sunburnt Sands and Sky Everywhere.”

These are from my collage artwork, “Red Dust and Eucalyptus”, a recently completed commissioned artwork.

And these are crops from my collage artwork, “Wintery Walk in the Park”…

Learning more about what I love

One of the things I'm realising when I play with crops is that I really love big, bold shapes with simple compositions and subtle textures. Somehow it feels like it takes boldness to create such simplicity, especially when I’m working directly with paint. Collage and cropping is helping me to be bolder and more inventive with my compositions. Hopefully it’ll transfer across to my painting too!