After creating cyanotype prints and background papers, the final step of the retreat workshop was creating our collage. Below is a short video of Sue's process, what she started with and where it ended up. You'll notice that some pieces come and go, others change placement. Believe it or not, this represents about a day and a half of working/re-working to come up with the final composition! Of course, that included instruction and demos from Lesley as well as time to enhance/alter some of the pieces used.
Funny story, after deciding on the placement of things, Sue discovered that she was working on a piece of paper that was 2 inches too tall and had to condense everything to fit it in before starting to glue to the foundation! The video below is the process for gluing everything to the foundation paper. Then it gets glued to a canvas board, and then finally mounted on a cradle board. The final mounting for this piece remains on the "to do" list.
Hope you enjoyed our recap of the botanical collage retreat!
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