I was doing some preparation for next Friday's Flamingo-Friday, but I got it finished so I thought I'd go ahead and post it. The flamingo is a photo I took at the zoo, and the other images were all in books of mine that I photographed.
I get the pieces and these collages sort of construct themselves!
I so seldom suggest it, but this one really DOES look best on black!
@kwind@radiogirl Thank you both! It's been such fun for me to go back to my roots as a collage artist! I never know where it's going to take me, which is half the fun! Thanks for coming along!
Instant fav...this is incredibly creative and interesting. Wonderful processing to get the bits you needed and then put together into a fantastic balanced interesting composition.
@pamknowler Thank you and thank you Taffy @taffy as well! I've just pulled out some old books and letters, envelopes and ephemera to photograph. I only selected a photo to see if I could do the pencil-sketch exercise, and then I'm recalling the pieces I photographed. These things build themselves! Thank you for the high praise! After years of discouragement in college, it's nice to feel free of all that!
absolutely wonderful Louise. They both really look as though they envy each other. do you also love to cut and paste with real scissors and glue. Thats what I love about scrapbooking.
@cruiser A huge thanks, Chris! Yes, for years I did mixed media collage and loved the process! I zeroed in on you when you posted the photo of the scrapbooking store! While I never did scrapbooking, I'd make altered and artist's books and put my work in them (sometimes). It's taken me since 2010 to realize I can "cut and paste" images digitally and I'm loving it! The engraving of the zoo was a full page, but digitally, I can resize it for perspective...love that! While in Lunenburg, I was dying to get home to "my stash" of books and letters, etc, and so I'm photographing heaps to have to play with next summer!
@stray_shooter Delighted you like the pictures! Thanks to you, I'm in love with the collage process that I did, hands-on, for so long! Who knows where the fun pay lead!
@annied No program at all this time, Annie! First, thanks for your compliment. I began with the photo I took of the flamingo and wanted to learn how to turn it into a pencil drawing/followed a tutorial. When I removed the background on the right, I thought, "What would he be looking at?" I'd been photographing things in (very) old books that were of interest to me, and I remembered the fashion plate in the pink dress! After that, I'd also photographed the etching plate in the book of an early zoological garden and the article about people's growing interest in foreign animals. By reducing the size of the full-page plate, it gave me a background reference at a zoo (with people in vintage attire) The rest of the background I filled in with snippits of drawing illuntration, and thought no one would notice, I broke up the words "Zoological Garden" to fill in between her skirt and the flamingo. On top of that I took a date from a page in the book and superimposed it. I've been a "paste and paper" collage & mixed media artist for many years in the past, so I've discovered the joys of doing this digitally! Give it a try...have some things on hand and they almost build themselves!
@Weezilou thank you so much for sharing - I shall say Louise this time hahaha - you are very clever - it looks amazing - I shall definitely try and give it a go!
January 17th, 2017
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