These were my first two collages. I was relatively happy with the first, particularly the composition of the image. I also thought the restricted colour scheme worked quite well and this is something I chose to continue throughout the rest of my collages. I was less happy with the second illustration, where I tried to combine collage with painted elements. I didn't think this was particularly effective (maybe I should have continued with the grey and blue colour scheme), maybe because I didn't put enough thought into it, or perhaps I wasn't comfortable enough using paint. For the rest of my collages I stuck with using just collaged elements.
These are the rest of the collages I made. Overall, I'm quite pleased with the results considered collage isn't something I've ever really explored much. I think the restricted colour scheme works quite well, and helped me to focus on the image more than the colours I was using. I enjoyed the two collages on the left, where I had cut out shapes from textured colours to substitute in as parts of another object (the bones on the top image, and the pieces of the robot on the bottom image). I think collage is really useful for getting unusual textures that you would struggle to create otherwise. I think perhaps my composition could have been better for some of these, but this is something I found challenging to think about when arranging all the parts of the collage on a piece of paper - particularly when figuring out what parts need to be stuck down first.
The two collages with triangles as key elements of the design were inspired by some of the collages made by the creative studio, DR ME who did a talk in LCA a while ago. A lot of their collages had geometrical elements to them that I thought were really effective, so this is something I tried to incorporate into my work.
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