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opiumtraum — The Ichthyologist and His Three Lovely Daughters
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Published: 2014-09-23 16:18:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 533; Favourites: 4; Downloads: 5
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(Burne-Jones, Bauer and Unknown)10x10
collage, paper. sky from a personal photo, commercially available art papers, vintage fish prints
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Beautiful! A wonderful example of what collage, skillfully employed, can achieve.
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Where do you find your prints and papers? I haven't done collage since grade school but it looks fun
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I find the figures looking around on-liine. There are periods of art history I like...so... The fish... I did a search for vintage fish prints. I have an OK printer at home. The sky... a photo I took. The boat- from an Eyewitness kid's book on vikings. The background landscape is from a pad of printed/distressed paper by Jim Holtz "Idea-ology" (you get them on-line or sometimes craft stores carry it. The water is commercially available decorative paper. I think I got this from Plaza arts, an art supply chain. The butterfly is a craft store sticker. I use YES! glue as an adhesive, but the shit can be a little problematical. I do all my cutting with a #11 xacto knife on a "self healing" plastic cutting board. All my stuff gets multiple sprays/layers of satin finish varnish...
...uh...that covers it.
A word about on-line images. 99% of what I use in collages are by artists whose work is in "free usage", meaning they've been dead for at least, or damn close to, 100 years- their work is no longer copyrighted. Also the reason I go with vintage stuff. When was it created? Using contemporary work puts you at risk for copyright violations. Dover publishing prints a boat load of copyright free images.
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