Month: February 2013

Breaking Free/Ελευθερια

Torn Paper collage by Angela Zafiris

For a very long time I would see, in my mind, a woman being released from her isolation. I saw her walls breaking down. She walked alone with the wind behind her pushing her toward the blue sky. The sun is coming out of the clouds and is ready to greet her. She doesn’t know what fate has in store for her but has an undying hope. Green symbolizes hope this is why she wears a green dress instead of black which symbolizes mourning. This woman mourns no more…

In this collage I used bits of torn blue paper from magazines for the sky. Torn bits of brown paper for the bricks and green for the females’ dress. The papers were glued on 34 x22 cm cardboard paper.

Love?/Ερωτας;

The first photograph is my collage at its first stage before being completely altered. After all the images got glued down on cardboard paper. I let it dry for a few hours. I then added a white wash to blend everything together. After the wash dried I painted over it with phthalocyanine blue. It was too dark, so I used burnt sienna mixed with a bit of titanium white acrylic to tone down the dark blue. It looked a lot better. Then I added the images and the text. I thought that the text stood out too much so I glued tissue paper over the text. A crimson acrylic was then applied with a key card, to make a border which is not seen in photo. The basic key to making a collage is layering and more layering and use just a couple of colours.

Love? (incomplete)

Collage on paper by Angela Zafiris

Conversation Heart Collage- #IHeart Art

Collage Hearts by Angela Zafiris

Today, I participated in an a webinar hosted by ‘clothpaperscissors.com’ . I learned how to make a three-layered heart collage using cardboard paper, text, pen and pencil, gesso, ribbon a hole puncher and glue. I didn’t have the right fabric for the second layer so I used bits of red coloured paper. For the smallest heart you can write a love poem or quote. There are so many things that you can do. I was very inspired and will probably make more for friends and family. It’s a nice little gift to give to someone you love. You can hang it anywhere you want.

So get crafty!