I recently had a bunch of my paintings, drawings, and sketchbook studies printed by a local printer, to generate new collage material. I always scan my smaller work at high resolution, and my larger works I have professionally photographed, so I have high quality digital images of everything. In Adobe PhotoShop I re-sized some of the images, and then ganged them up on 11"x17" files, ready for the printer. You could do this on your own printer if you have plenty of ink.
Here are a few of the files I sent to the printer:
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A few images from my sketchbook |
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More from the sketchbook, original and re-sized |
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More from sketchbook with the red pear in several sizes |
Here are some paintings and studies ganged up on 11"x17" sheets:
In addition to all this new collage material, I used some found material and began playing. Take a look at this video.
I found this to be a very freeing way to play with imagery and generate fresh visual ideas.