Collagraph Prints

These pieces of artwork all show my weird love of shapes. In order to make this I just threw together some cool looking shapes cut from cardboard and mixed them together to make some cool shapes. The first image on the left relates to my life the most so I will talk about it the most. I have always wanted to go into the military in some form for my whole life. The american flag(artistic liberties taken) sort of embodies that desire to protect the good old USA. The work was made using cardboard and acrylic paint. I cut the cardboard into pieces that I thought were cool, glued them to another piece of cardboard, coated it in glue, then painted and pressed the pieces to create the prints. It was fairly easy for me to come up with the ideas for these projects. They were basically the product of random pieces of cardboard being thrown together to create something that was visually attractive. I really want to take the american flag design and make a much more professional print out of it. The design is cool and I think that it could look alot cooler. I think that my next steps will be using some kind of program to make the american flag one into something really cool and then making it into a banner as a quarantine project.