This past week we were working on our collages in which we had to incorporate drawing into the collage in some aspect. I started gathering materials by means of large prints that were in the recycling, magazines, newspapers, and cardboard boxes. By scrolling through Pinterest, I found some inspiration collages that gave me ideas as to what direction to go. 

For the backing of my collage, I used a cardboard box which I eventually covered the cardboard with other materials. I started by tearing up a large print in which I found a way that if I tore the paper it could look like snow on the side of a mountain, so I created a mountain range in the back of my collage. Then, from there I wasn’t entirely sure what to put in the foreground of my collage so, I added a lake and some ripples or a current in the lake. The collage was still missing something, so I added some tall grass to emulate a field along the lake. In one of the collages on Pinterest, there were some that had a layer that looked like the newspaper was ripping open to a scene and I thought that it was pretty cool so I incorporated something similar to that in my collage. I found some leftover strips of vinyl to make a frame or border for my collage in an attempt to give it a clean finish on the edge.

Incorporating the drawing aspect into my collage is where I struggled. I was sitting in my apartment during the Texas Freeze the past couple of days and it came to me how I should incorporate drawing. I decided to add some light shading to the edges of the layers of newspaper to give it a little more depth. And that’s the story of how I created my collage for Drawing Into Space.

The first image is after my first day of working on my collage and the second is the final product.