Parallel Projects: Contrast Color Collage and Food Collage
Continuing with our Balance and Contrast theme, Chobie
explored the concept of contrasting colors today with a color collage on a
black background.
He cut out shapes from colored paper and glued them on to
make a pattern.
Originally, I had the idea that the colored pieces of paper
would be torn from the pages to create ragged edges as an interesting visual
effect. Chobie, however, would have nothing of the sort and insisted on using
scissors (while looking at me like I was crazy).
He also chose to make a “rock” out of black paper to add to
his collage, which wasn’t what I had been thinking when I showed him the
project, but it provided the perfect opportunity to compare the effect of
contrasting and non-contrasting elements.
While Chobie worked on his collage, and Bee did some “grocery
shopping” by pushing his play cart around and filling it with items from our
cupboards, and I made a little collage myself.
I haven’t always been a fan of collages. I am trying to get
more into it, but honestly they almost always all turn out looking essentially
the same, at least the amateur do-it-yourself-cut-from magazines ones that I
make. So I tried doing something a little different.
Years ago I had the idea of creating a kitchen altar of
sorts by decorating a wall of my kitchen with inspiring images to remind me of
the importance of loving, intentional food preparation and to invoke gratitude
for all of the plants, animals, and unnamed human hands who make it possible
for me to feed my family each day.
With that in mind I put together this collage image of a
goddess of plenty. I wanted her to be round, voluptuous. It’s not my favorite
project, but I’ll admit it’s growing on me. She can at least be a stand in
until I get my kitchen witch (doll) created, if she does not become a permanent
fixture.
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