[[Collage]]
[[Critique]] The very first thing I would change about my collage is how I budgeted my time. I waited until the last minute to start creating it, and I’m not too happy about what I finished with. I feel it looks unfinished. So, if I were to re-do this project, I would work on it more [to make it look completed], and I think I would also like to have a more cohesive theme. My collage just kind of showed natural things vs. man-made things, but I also wanted to show what happens when they collide, er, affect each other.
What I like about my collage is how I used layer masks to make my ”finished” collage look almost seamless. I’m most proud of how I made the sun look like it’s inside the grate, because the took me a lot of hard work, and took a long time. I also like how I created a shadow for the green plant. I’m not really sure what it has to do with my idea or anything, but I like how it looks.
What I liked the least would probably the color combinations. I wanted everything to be floursecent, but I generally don’t like flourescent colors. So I don’t know if it’s just me not liking the colors, or if they really are that unattractive. I hope not. But uh, I think the green plant is kind of off-putting compared to the bright pinks and yellow, but then again I kind of like it because it pops out. I also think I could have done something more clever with my layout. I mean, I did put thought into it, but I was in a little bit of a hurry. And because of having to do a lot of layer masks, as I added more stuff to my collage I couldn’t really move anything that I had worked on previously.
Here’s the Rauschenberg collage I used as my inspiration;
created by Robert Rauschenberg
I chose this piece of art because I liked the colors, and how they were all somewhat transparent and overlapping. I couldn’t really decide what to derive from his collage, so everything I drew from this was aesthetic. I chose to use bright colors like he did, and I also used transparent, overlapping images. I got my idea to put the sun in the grate because of how Rauschenberg made the cat look like it was sitting on the stairs.
