Collage Painting

This project was an extension of the knowledge we learned on paint mixing, wherein we had to match colors to a collage we made, and recreate the collage as our own painting. This used the element color and principle unity. We used clippings from National Geographic magazines, and acrylic paints to execute this project.

First I assembled cutouts of things in the magazines that I found interesting: classical paintings, Jesus, a weird mouse thing, vintage photos. After I had a good collection, I put them together to form a sort of strange conglomerate of people and limbs all intertwined as one strange ominous entity. After that I started to mix the paint. I liked mixing the paint for this much more than I did when I was doing the 84-color color wheel. It felt much more free and overall interesting. I took some artistic liberties with not matching the shading on the skin perfectly, but it gave a general idea and most importantly—it looked cool.

At first, I wanted this to be an epic mashup of clipped apart renascence and baroque paintings assembled into an epic scene. Unfortunately, there weren't enough pictures of these in the magazines that I could find them in within the time period given to me. So, I went for the next best thing and assembled them as I described in the previous paragraph. As for the painting, it flowed very smoothly, to the point where there weren't any problems big enough to remember. The worst thing that happened was that I spent little time on the faces so they became very rushed and almost (actually completely) comical. This project was most likely my favorite out of the whole year, and I definitely plan on hanging out in the art room next year making these during advisory.