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.
I love the Madeira collage – had to look really, really hard to see that it was a collage at all! It would make a lovely quilting project!