Collage tinkering

[sienamystic]

I've been invested in making collages, recently. Actually, that's not quite true - I've done it before, although with just a gluestick and a blank book, but now I'm doing new techniques I've never tried before. Most of the stuff involves transfer work, using contact paper and caulk and, as the delicious odor in my kitchen says, beeswax. I've had varying degrees of success with it. My work at the moment lacks, I think, any sort of real edge to make it more interesting than "pretty," and I may never get to that point. But I find it really satisfying to see what turns out, and I'm going to keep playing around with it and see what comes up.


Batgirl Says Get Out There




Tour Eiffel


Under the Weather (may be unfinished, I'm not sure)


Definitely unfinished - it's got beeswax and a transfer print of bats cooling in the kitchen right now



Gotta keep scrounging stuff to add three-dimensionality on these, but not go over the top to the "too busy for busy's sake" point. Difficult for me to do. Some of my earlier collages were really just one image on an otherwise blank sheet, because I was convinced I'd spoil the purity of it all somehow.

Comments

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

I think I agree with Under the Weather being unfinished - seems like it needs more of a focal point, maybe.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

These are lovely. I do some decoupage myself, but exclusively the flat collage sort of thing - 3D work seems very daring to me!