Surrealism Collage Painting

This project was to create a painting of a surrealist collage. The subject of the surrealist painting is inside a gorge with a parrot sitting on a lamp post, a lotus floating in the water, and the grim reaper hidden in the shadows. To compose my piece I used various colors and tints of acrylic paint. The main focus of the piece is the star burst and used the other "objects" in the collage to act as the leading lines to it.

For the process, I first created a collage in Acorn by pulling reusable images from Google images. Next, I darkened the landscape to make the gorge look darker. Then I started painting the background using the based colors. After, I would add some detail and move on to the next layer.

I chose this design because it just popped into my head when I saw an example of a painting of a surrealist collage in class. The original design was just supposed to be of a parrot in a gorge representing a guide, but the designed then developed to represent a journey through life with all its interesting qualities. If I were to do this again I would add more texture to the feathers of the parrot.