tissue paper

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

By Angela Zafiris
Collage on paper 24 x32 cm

Happy New Year! Today is the Chinese new year and I believe-like the Chinese that the New Year starts at the end of January and not at the beginning. This gives me more time to work on my resolutions for this year ;)))

The idea for my new collage titled ‘Free Woman’ came to me last week. It’s my first completed collage of the year. I used white tissue paper for the background and added some colour. The bird coming out of the woman represents the free bird hidden within all of us waiting to be set free. I like to use text in my collages. I like to write poetry, so I put some text with poetry that I wrote and pasted it onto the bird.

“Maybe some women aren’t meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free til they find someone just as wild to run with them.”

Sex and the City quotes