Collage

We were told to create a collage from magazines, then to recreate the collage with paint. The subject of my creation is four people who are all holding cigarettes. The collage was made from magazine clippings cut out with scissors or an x-acto knife. the painting was made with paints and paintbrushes.

The elements I used were color, since there was a lot of coor, value on the shading of the people, texture in the background. The principles I used were unity because the painting looks like a complete image despite being a collage. At first I was just cutting out random objects and people, then I noticed I had a lot of people with cigarettes. I then used all of them, and found an article with the word chemical a lot. I gave the work a theme. When I did the painting, I decided not to do detailed faces.

The story of the painting is that everyone is smoking. Cigarettes have dangerous chemicals, and the background is kind of dirty. I guess it shows what is happening to the world because of drugs. I am proudest of the theme and of how I painted the dude in uniform. I struggled with making the paints the right color and I work very slow so it is still unfinished. There are also a lot of white spaces where I forgot to paint. if I could I would make the colors match better and make sure there are no blank spaces without paint on the canvas.