First Spread, First Collage
This is my first spread. I'm pleased with it for the first time around but I would like to get how to blend the pictures and the background. These pictures look like they are just sitting there. You can also see, in the larger view, the bleed through from my first journal page (below). I didn't prep the page with gesso first! The problem is I live in the middle of nowhere so it's next to impossible to study technique outside of books and websites. I think you sometimes need to see the real thing for it to click and say, oh yeah, that's how it's done! I did discover you don't need to iron the pages once they are dry. When you work the other side it buckles the other way!
This is my first true collage, no background, just images. It's on the inside front cover of my composition art journal, opposite my first journal page (below). This one I really had fun with. The "fairy" is from a Campari ad. I cut the image between her thumb and glass of Campari and soda. Then I slipped in the Altoid tin cut from another ad. Click images for a larger view.
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You're off to a great start with these pages, Mary! I like the odd combination of items you've grouped together. Really interesting! To make my collaged items blend into the page more, I either drybrush a little paint over the edges of them, or draw over the edges with watercolor crayon.
Melisa
These are great! Thanks for sharing. I have a hard time getting my pages to blend too, although Melisa's comment helps me too :)
strange. I commented on your work yesterday and my comment isn't here.
I love your compostion and its obvious you have put a lot of work and thought into this. great job!
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