I would now like to share with you my process and how I discovered it. I was an art student in college trying so desperately to understand oil painting with great frustration because I like to act on an idea right away, not wait until the paint dries. So every piece turned to mud.
I saw this nice collage another student made out of wallpaper and was inspired to try this also. So in my dorm room I sketched out an image of my parents and I realized I did not have a way to find wallpaper. But I did have a stack of glamour magazines and decided to use that paper instead for the color and texture. As I said in my last blog, I discovered my medium and found I could actually make a portrait!
After this portrait of my parent was seen by their friends, they commissioned me to do a portrait of them. And it went on from there.
Although my technique started out a bit chunky and abstract it soon became more refined and detailed. I think my work is a bit different then most would call "collage" because that would imply something more abstract and it would be like cutting out an eyeball from a magazine cover and gluing that onto the portrait I am working on for the eye. But I don't do that . Instead, I cut out tiny pieces of colors of greens and browns and blend them to create a hazel eye in the shape of that particular person's eyeball. I cut out little pieces of black to create the eyelashes. I use color and texture to make every detail like a painter would use paint.
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