For my collage project, I made use of some old cyanotype photographs and paper, other blue hued papers found in the lost and found box, magazine paper, and oil pastels. I began by cutting the cyanotype photographs into small, random shapes and later doing the same with the rest of blue hued papers. When I began laying the blue pieces down i started with one color (as you can see the darker blues are all together, the lighter ones together and so one) overlapping each other because I love textured art so I knew I wanted to have these random shapes over lapping one another. When I followed with the lighter pieces of blue I still didn’t really know what I was going to create… was it going to be a sky (it was giving sky)? A wave? Add a wave it was. I drew an outline of a wave and continued filling it in with the little cut pieces of textured blue paper. I wanted the textures and different colors of blue in the wave to be uniformed and have some form of harmony so I tried adding different colors of blue (light, dark, textured, not so textured) here and there to tie them all together. To add a one pint perspective I added rectangular pieces of magazine paper inside the wave creating a tunnel-like effect. The surrounding areas were also covered in magazine paper which I then colored over with warm oil pastel colors to allude to a sunset sky. Some magazines I had used as scrap paper where i would test the color of pastels by coloring on the magazine paper. I utilized these scrap pieces in my background as well. Overall, this collage was created using recycled pieces of art.