Exercise Collage made from random elements

Looking at some of the Cubist works of Braque I am initially comparing them to what I understand to be the brief for what Cubism represents... real life objects represented from no one fixed view point... which for me has the effect of flattening the objects losing the three dimensional representation.

The collage aspect of the Cubist movement was a means of taking art away from being just about oil on canvas

The following Braque picture (link below) is typical of the image I visualise when think of Cubist works, muted colours,  musical instrument and and news paper clippings.

George Braque:  Daily, Violin and pipe,  1913


For me the Cubist works are like a flat time capsule.

I much prefer Braque's later oil paintings, compositionally the shapes and the flat colours have very strong collage like feel.

George Braque: The Black Fish, 1942


My version of Black Fish, using the masking fluid to draw in the objects before applying the paint, which to me gives the appearance of torn pieces of paper:

In the following exercise I have pasted pieces of torn coloured paper and pages from a magazine and the dropped them onto an A2 sheet of watercolour paper.  After several attempts at doing this I something on the paper that I found aesthetically pleasing,  glueing the pieces of paper in place I may have shifted them slightly to my advantage.

Collage step 1:

I am initially drawn to the areas of the collage where grey paper is combined with red paper

Grey and red, detail:

In the next step is to add other medium to the collage, thinking that whatever I do should push the focus towards these areas.


Collage after anding crayon and watercolour:

Having no obvious figurative elements to work with the initial collage I found my self filling in the spaces around the torn pieces of paper to the picture's detriment.

Another collage sticking with the red and grey colours that I like, also leave out the any other medium,  I like the order suggest by the paper pieces of the same size and don't want detract from this.