Steemit Engagement Challenge WOX, S10W5: Collage of my Life
Greetings, Steemians! With this post I participate in 'Steemit Engagement Challenge':
https://steemit.com/@worldofxpilar/steemit-engagement-challenge-wox-s10w5-collage-of-my-life
This round was about creating collage, which was up to me.
I have a thick pile of various old papers, including colour and textured design papers, and old glossy magazines as well. Most of them we moved to the attic at our summer house, but the rest are still here, in the dusty box. So I pulled the box out of the sofa, and all the week was watching them, giving time for idea to mature out.
Of course, the stuff (i.e. various pictures) comes first, and than comes to surface the idea of what type of collage I could make. My first idea was this: natural landscape with huge cocktail and drink glasses added, with hummingbirds and butterflies flying around them, and me with camera shooting them. Idea quite simple and visually attractive. I found the drinks photos I need momentarily -- but no hummingbirds, and not even butterflies. So I had to put my first draft to pause...
By the way, look, I have such a useful book: 'How to Cut: Learning to use scissors'. I highly recommend it for those who are afraid of scissors and are too lazy to cut. Reading (and implementing) this book will help to understand how much fun it is. No, it is really easy! This has been my desk book since childhood, so I love both paper and scissors, and have absolutely no problems with that.
The first thing I cut out were the eyes. Then I found a close-up portrait, with a fitting admiring "ah!" facial expression, what I needed.
Then the idea slowly mutated: my face admiringly looking at natural beauty, and my hand squeezing the camera somewhere on the side. To do this, I cut out a face, a hand, a small canon camera (the same scale as the hand), a cactus plain, a sad misty autumn landscape to contrast with blooming cacti, and one flower. The result is not exactly what I wanted, but .... but there are close-ups, and there is a color contrast - what I needed.
I ended up with four sources being used:
-- Tear-off calendar (eyes)
-- 'Madame' magazine (female portrait and autumn landscape)
-- 'Elle girl' magazine (flower and cacti)
-- 'Photo workshop' magazine (hand and camera canon)
'The Russian Reporter' magazines were left unused; I value pretty much and still rather prefer to keep, that to cut... they are the faint trace of the freedom of speech that existed in Russia in the 2000s... that we dont have.
I hope my collage was of interest to you.
Hello @jpegg
Thank you for participating in the collage challenge.
I don't know if this is your first analogue collage, I can tell you that I like the result.
I like the fact that you have been thinking about the idea for days...to make a collage takes hours of thinking and thinking and minutes of elaboration.
The composition and the combination of colours are very well balanced, the surrealistic touch of the phosphorescent eyes is very striking and the top part that shows a torn notebook page, gives texture to the work.
It is a very good work.
@silviadiez, thanks for the kind words. I'm not completely new to collage making, but so far I was doing mostly pure text compositions, from funny and contrastingly paradoxical phrases. In this piece of art, I applied a common sense of composition and the principle of a poster (large bright spot of color implied).
Hope I will "accelerate myself" and continue with collage-making contests, I really like this fun, and have a lot of magazines to recycle. 😛 Alas, all my text sources - what I like to play with in collages - are mostly Russian-language, so this component will remain obscure for most spectators...
Смею предположить, что это не просто рука, а рука папарацци :))
Отличное решение и содержательные размышления, желаю успеха в конкурсе!
Ну конечно! именно так: глаза папарацци, а камеру сжимают руки-крюки (одна штука).
Спасибо за благопожелание. Не опоздал ли я с подачей моей заявки?
Карета превращается в тыкву в полночь ))
Всё нормально)
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Peace & Love!
Hola @jpegg, muy bonito y con colorido espectacular que embellece la presentación de su collage, lo felicito por su gran desempeño para este desafío. Éxito
Gracias por sus amables palabras. ¡Me alegro de que te haya gustado mi pequeño pedazo de arte de papel! 😘
Hola jpegg.
Realizó un excelente collage felicidades.
Éxito en el desafío 🤞🏻
Muchas Bendiciones..🙏🏻
¡Gracias! Me alegro de que te guste.
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Мне понравился коллаж! Яркий, привлекательный, читаемый.
Кажется, у меня появится новое увлечение :-)))
Да, у меня видимо тоже 😎
I find it awesome!
и даже обалденным :))
Спасибо! это всегда сюрприз, и весьма приятный. 🤩