I’ve been taking a great collage class for the past few weeks. We work in class and create collages in a couple of hours. It’s a challenge because of the time and materials constraint, but it makes me work and think a little differently than I normally do, which is exactly why I took the class.
For our first assignment, we drew with scissors from a live model. At the end of the night I’d produced these, which were not at all finished. They were totally unresolved in this state.
I finished the first one at home, which I think is a massive improvement. I wanted to try and keep some of the gesture of the live model but give it some kind of theme.
It’s tough to salvage a bad collage when you want to preserve the one interesting shape in it. I gessoed over most of it, but had to scrape some of it off the figure on the left. Now I just have to finish the second one.