The Next President Collage

    This assignment I enjoyed much more then the drawing. It takes less concentration and you can get a message of how you feel across to anyone who looks at it. For this assignment I had to put my perfectionist trait aside and just go for it. It took me a little while to succesfully do that but before I knew it I was done. Layer by layer, I didn't know what was next. I started with paint and added tissue paper and did a few gloss transfers. After, I started taking risky steps and following through with more bold actions and finally finished with using real leaves and flower petals. I decided that I have strong feelings about the war going on in the middle east. I understand at one point in time it was important to make our presence over there known, but now it is a different story. I feel as though there isn't any reason we should still be fighting over there and losing our men when we took care of the head of the terrorist society. On top of the unnecessary loss families are going through, our country can not afford this war. This subject is very aggravating to me so I decided to make it the subject of my collage.

^^^^This is about half way done.

^^^^This is the finished product.

 

The dove is my favorite part of this collage and I am very happy with my decision to dry brush over it with sliver. =]