Collages

Yesterday I spent most of the afternoon and early evening making collages. Not to mention most of Saturday evening choosing two images to use as inspiration. I had quite a lot of fun making them. Funnily enough apart from doing pottery the only other thing I remember from art classes at school was making a collage of a guitar in a still life class. My finished piece hung on my bedroom wall for ages!

Here I am surrounded by various pieces of paper, working on my first collage based on a landscape. I chose a seascape as I love the sea. I grew up at the seaside and really miss it being stuck in the middle of Europe here near Frankfurt.

Here is the original photo taken on holiday a few years ago on Madeira.

And here is my version of it as a collage made from magazine paper:

The second collage is based on architecture. I thought the Hundertwasserhaus would be a bit different from the usual wall, window, door image.

My interpretation is made from magazine paper and a paper bag from the bread shop.