Collage from magazine pictures

I made this many years ago, and it's still one of my favourites. Because I think what I chose for this particular collage reflects my taste, my eye for what's interesting.

Title: Glimmer of Light

Another piece using the same conceptual starting point as 'Road to Nowhere' -- a path/light that cuts through surrounding darkness.

Title: Road to Nowhere

This is a road between two mountains that just cuts. The road is bright and colourful, in contrast with the gloomy, rather frightening surroundings.

Title: Wall

I love creating textures so much that I made another one. This one is created to look like a wall with posters papered all over it, torn down and papered again.

Title: Mountain

Another experiement with creating texture using scrap paper and acrylic paints (like "Red", the greeting card).

The craggy texture and whitish peak suggests a mountain to me.

Title: Red

I wanted to make a card that has a base colour of red to match a present I had bought a friend.

I decided to work using the Artist Trading Card format.

This one was created by pasting bits of scrap to create texture. Acrylic paint was then painted on, one colour at at a time. Each layer of paint was carefully blotted to create different areas of colours.

Title: ReCycle

When I made 'Dreams' (see previous post), I actually pasted a few pieces of used toto lottery tickets on the flyer (card stock). I then painted all of them together, and cut out the part I needed for dreams.

The inspiration for this came from looking at what was left. I saw lots of red (because the background used in the flyer was red), and green (because that was my base colour for 'Dreams', which put in mind of a lush landscape.

However, I wanted the piece to have a touch of the modern to it as well, hence the abstract sharp-edged pieces used to create the palm tree. How the tree was constructed may also have something to do with the fact that I am drawn to triangular shapes, and circles.