This magazine collage was a lovely piece to work on. It is an A2 piece made entirely of ripped and cut magazines, on recycled board using non-toxic adhesives.
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| Magazine Collage Commission 'Hogben-Smith Family' |
The composition was made up of several photographs, making the required changes to clothing and placement. I also had the added request of a rainbow!
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| Original Photographs |
I always roughly sketch out before beginning to collage
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| Rough Sketch |
There is quite a lot of detail in this piece so I was able to play with technique, using cut and ripped magazines to emulate the landscape and subject features.
I spend quite a lot of time adjusting the height of the figures as some of the images were old and didn't reflect the correct scale.
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| Detail from Commission 'Hogben-Smith Family' |
I absolutely love the little girls colourful unicorn dress and so spent time making sure this was as accurate as possible.
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| Detail from Commission 'Hogben-Smith Family' |
The beautiful caravan made a wonderful feature,
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| Detail from Commission 'Hogben-Smith Family' |
I was quite liberal with my artistic license when working on the shelter as the exact details were a little difficult to make out.
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| Detail from Commission 'Hogben-Smith Family' |
I love this ladies hair! I had to cut lots of tiny pieces of magazine in varying shades to capture the lovely curls.
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| Detail from Commission 'Hogben-Smith Family' |
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| Detail from Commission 'Hogben-Smith Family' |
I was asked to take lots of photographs during construction so that the family could see the way the piece was built up. I put them altogether in this video
The piece was framed by Alan at Roaring Tree using reclaimed weathered fencing to make this gorgeous frame.
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| Framed Commission 'Hogben-Smith Family' |
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