I’ve been doing small 5″x8″ for a few years now, and it’s been more by intuition or intention on a subject. This time I decided to try to create one by using a photograph and recreating it in a fashion using strips of paper. I saw a photo that Kathleen Jennette posted awhile ago and asked her if I could use it and she said yes. Here is the original:
I just finished the photo collage. It still needs some touch-up, and the plan is to coat it with an acyrlic matte, but I’m excited to show it off. It was very challenging, but it was also a lot of fun putting together. Let me know what you think!
Update 5/6/20: I learned about a cool (free) editing program from Jen Goldie and decided to try it on the collage. Look what glass effect did to it:
very nice!
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Thank you, Gina 🙂
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Great!
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Thank you!
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You’re so
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Fabulous!! Great texture and I love the colors too. (K)
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Kerfe, thank you very much.
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And you’re going to do more, right?
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I will do more, yes, not right away probably.
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Very cool Lisa!
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Thank you, Max. Sorry I’ve been falling behind on reading yours, Hans, and other blogs. A2Z took it out of me and the collage took a lot of time.
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Lisa that is fine. Life puts us behind. Heck I just finally finished with the Steve Earle you did Saturday night…I do like the collage.
You take your time!
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Thanks and yes, no rush is the best practice for now.
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Great job! I think it looks like lots of fun! I think I’ll try it sometime soon. I’ve collected lots of clippings. Hmmmm 😊🤔
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Thank you, Jen 🙂 It is a lot of fun! It took awhile, but I have time on my hands.
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Don’t we all have time on our hands!! 😊 I’m gonna try it!
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Can’t wait to see it 🙂
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Very impressed to see the detail in something so small. You must have good eyes!
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I blew the picture up and printed it out bigger, went over the main lines with a pencil as the template, then put tracing paper over it to outline it again.
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Great idea!
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Thank you, Benn!
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That’s amazing! I’ve never seen anything like it!
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Thanks, Keith 🙂 If you look at it closely, you’ll see it got better towards the bottom of it, as I went from top to bottom and had started getting the knack after awhile.
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Very beautiful. I would love to make your acquaintance. Are you on Facebook?
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Thank you, Neel. No, I dropped facebook. My policy is never to meet anyone from the blogging community in real life, sorry.
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You’re welcome Lisa. Look what glass did to it PERFECT! I’m happy you tried the edit program 😊
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🙂
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Oh its beautiful! So fun and clever ❤
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Thank you very much, Lael ❤
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Cool! It must have been time consuming but the results are spectacular! ❤️
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🙂 Thank you very much, Punam. You’re right it took awhile to do it, but it was relaxing.
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You are welcome.
Yes, I know what you mean…true labour of love. 🙂
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:)<3
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Wow. This is just beautiful. I think you have captured the subject’s feeling as well as depicting it as it looks. And what a mysterious image, certainly makes me think there is a story here – the person just about to reach up and pick it? Or just look at it? And the aqua/ gold colors, a vibrant combination (and a favorite of mine). I also enjoy your paper choices (looking at the actual paper as it is, itself, vs the role it plays in collage – I enjoy doing that!). I’m so happy that the technique worked out for you, too. Thanks for showing me the results!
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Thank you, Claudia. I’m so happy I ran across your post. Your tips were appreciated ❤
The paper choices are magazine clippings. The blues all came from a photo out of National Geographic, of a giant iceberg! I would like to try and make my own colors on paper though. It was a lot of fun putting it together. Acrylic matte is on the way, and I have permanent glue on order as well 🙂
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Making your own colored papers is a pleasure just in itself, never mind then you have nice material for collages. I think you will enjoy it.
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I don’t know how I missed this!! This is so artful and done with great imagination. Love it!!
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Thank you, Kathleen. Glad you like it 🙂
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You are very talented😊
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🙂
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