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RE: Showcase-Sunday: A study on the Old Masters. Handcut collage collection.
Interesting work - and you picked some that are my faves as well.
There are additional ways to create collages: you would have to collect pages of color photos (and/or artwork) that are in about the right color key (such as for example a meadow for green) and cut your collage pieces from those, So you would have textured pieces to work with. Of course it would take a bit of collecting to get a adequate palette of textured color pieces you can work with.
A artist friend of mine did a few like that: he cut up unsuccessful (in his eyes) paintings of his and used them to create some interesting portraits.
I am happy that you like them @thermoplastic:) Indeed, i experimented in various ways and still do. When i started doing collages i used the way you proposed but i was running out of material for the larger artworks. Still by using a bit of imagination i produced interesting results. Then it was this gradient coloured period where i learned a lot about highlighting and shadows and in the end i switched again to photographs, but this time prints on a thick and quality paper:)
Here you can see a desert for the skin and a sea waves for the hair:)