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Caribbean Girl

collage, 6.5" x 4.5"
magazine cut-outs

on watercolour paper

Hi!

As you see the collage looks quite different from what I anticipated yesterday. Thinking about how I could achieve in paper a similar veiled result like the one in my last post, I jumped to the conclusion that this way of working is not right; it would have taken to much trouble to imitate it in paper and you can even wonder if this is desirable.

Digital collaging has different possibilities than the 'real stuff' as someone once called paper collage to me, both are artforms that deserve their own character and recognition. Now I really have experienced what I already had read and heard ;-) Btw: I looked up the correct meaning of the word: smitten and I feel pretty ashamed, because I found out that this particular word may have sounded quite bragging to you. And being the beginner that I am, I hope you will understand that I did not mean it this way, sorry for that! What I did mean was that I liked and was enthusiast about the effect of that digital collage. And not being a native speaker it can happen that I think a word is correct while it isn't at all, that's the finetuning I miss...

On with the collage: I made four of them this week. These four are quite simple, just tearing and cutting the magazine pictures in colours that I liked, the subjects are different but the colour scheme is more or less similar. Caribbean Girl is the first one of this week's series. Like the yellowish digital collages of last week, it makes even me feel happy (and I am not exactly missing sunlight!).

Thanks for visiting, more collage work tomorrow,

Regina