Collages

For this collage I cut out a page of a splattered puddle into pieces and stuck them onto the face. I don't feel that I was being significant with this, I was more experimenting with what the puddle would like if I cut it up and puzzled it differently on the face. I think it looks like the collage is metal parts of the skin and is melting. I've left some of the skin exposed so that the viewer could still see that the image is part human. I think looking at it now I would have covered the whole face with collage as the collage looks quite stiff and not fluid on the face. If all the pieces were connected instead of separated it would look more fluid.

 The cut out pieces were originally a magazine page of a black beaded dress. I never really collage with just one colour, if I do then it has to be a variety of shades of that colour. If you look closer, each black piece has different shades on it. The colour black is significant to what I wanted to portray in this collage because I wanted it to look tribal and black is a common colour used to make tribal patterns. It's quite obvious there is a human face underneath but I want this to be shown in the collage otherwise the pattern and whole idea wouldn't really work. If I wanted it to be unrecognizable then I would have coloured the skin white or an earthy colour and then placed the tribal pattern on top. I think keeping the face appearing works better though because it still looks altered with the pattern - I think the face looks more animalistic. It reminds me of how tigers it's own pattern of stripes, now I've made a face have it's own pattern too.

This collage is made up of a whole page of eyelashes from a magazine. I way I have collaged on this face is significant as I wanted to fade the the colour throughout the face. I did this by cutting out the darkest parts of the page and sticking them around the edge of the face along the hairline and jawline. I started sticking parts of the page where the eyelashes aren't as thick towards the centre of the page. I also drew thick black lines on the eyebrows, eyelid area and ear to fill in the skin and add contrast as if the collage isn't the only feature this creature has. I wanted to cover the face fully to see what the outcome would be. I think I was more experimenting and trying to see if this idea would work more than anything. I do think it looks tribalistic because of the earthy colours and patterns of thin straight lines I have done along the face.