Whether you do it with paper or other materials, composing a collage implies that the elements involved will mean something different from what they meant in their original contexts.
Often the result is a message that has a mysterious complexity. However, regardless of whether the work is dramatic, it is always fun to watch.
A few times before, years ago, I did a couple of collages, and I didn't remember it being so entertaining.
It is a symbolic participation. I hope to be able to arrive next week
Well, I'll leave mine and hope you have fun.
This is my first participation in the Let's Make a Collage contest, which is now in its 50th edition.
A testimony of constancy, success and growth.
I am also grateful to add the community Let's Make a Collage to welcome my work and to encourage my enthusiasm to do so.
To do so, I used the photograph that @shaka so kindly gave up as a scene and I placed on this scene cut out parts of drawings I had made and photographs I have taken.
I did almost everything with PhotoShop, which I am learning to use, but I also used PowerPoint. As you can see, very simple tools.
Then I placed the different elements, removing the backgrounds with the help of the magic wand and eraser tools.
I put the eye behind the mountains, as if it were a sun, and took advantage of the overlapping layers to create a small waterfall in the background, which could well flow from the eye.
Then it occurred to me that the eye would have to have something to look at, and I cut out and placed the sphere.
There were missing elements in the landscape. That's why I put this butterfly that I photographed one morning in my garden. My cat hunted it and, in the end, I didn't know if it was saved. I hope she did. In any case, I leave the butterfly in the blockchain as an apology.
This is my cat, Neem. She is a wild hunter with the face of a sweet princess.
That's why I put a crown on her with the passion fruit sheet, which I photographed and modified with a PowerPoint filter.
I tried some elements in PhotoShop to add borders and shadows, because I wanted to make them look like die-cut cardboard (a little homage to my childhood stories)
Well, then adjust the sizes to accentuate the depth and the surreal climate, this is the result. I hope you like it as much as I had fun doing it.
