This is the art for a potluck invitation.  I set myself the discipline of making the whole thing from pictures of food.  I've been accumulating all sorts of material from magazines and catalogs that folks leave in recycle bins, and this generates a major sorting problem.....by color, by category, by topic, by what?

This is the sort of thing I'd like to have as wallpaper 1:1. I'd be transfixed, stim-dancing-spinning-babbling running-up- the-stairs sort-of. That could be some groovy clothes-patterns... Yiha!

It's done amazingly skilful, it is genuine art.  I have some feeling you enjoy solving the sorting problem.

The background looks kind of magical, especially with the those chocolates.

very skillfully done, its a true work of art! i couldn't have done better myself

Aw..thanks, y'all!
I'm experimenting....the sorting is an amazing enterprise in itself--am learning a lot about color...and how different things appear depending on light.  I'll have a batch of, say, olive green that goes together under one sort and then, a few months later when I'm adding more to the batch, I can see that I'd put papers together that don't go together.  It's making me appreciate more how important perception is as a filter on "reality" (whatever that is).

Anyway....I guess this is my current "special interest"...categorizing and sorting...preparing for some possible artistic future, I don't know.

Wow, It looks great!

My first attempt at a "still life".

Wow! these are really good! I think they even look a bit like stained glass window designs as the textures of some of the pieces look like bubble glass or the coloured glass with swirls in it.

energeia and tenaciouscj--WOW! what beautiful collages! That’s one area of art in which I’ve never really dabbled (I’ll have to give it a go).

Just one thing…Can someone get that Giraffe to stop staring at me? lol

Just one thing…Can someone get that Giraffe to stop staring at me? lol

Admit it, QD -- you're secretly transfixed by that giraffe's sexy, come-hither gaze. Gotta love the eye-lashes.

Energeia, the students in my arts and crafts class love doing collage but have trouble taking it to the next level. I'm going to use the invitation as an example...

Thanks, Max.  I'm wanting to take myself to some "next" level and I don't know what that is.
Except for having some decent glue (I'm using "YES Paste" which is harder to use but way less toxic than rubber cement) and a high tolerance for tedious, I'm not sure what I'd recommend.  It's all still experimental for me.  Having plentiful source material is good--I accumulate it by swiping magazines and catalogs from my apartment building's "recycle" and cutting the images out.  I'm kind of fascinated with food images--they're sensual.  (Alas, I used up most of my "blue food" pictures in the collage above.)

Max, I have two aspie friends with eyelashes that remind me of that giraffe's - so beautiful and long and dark. Actually, all the other aspies I know in real life have lovely eyes and lashes.

I get a lot of pieces for collages from glossy advertising brochures and also draw some designs myself to patch in. Even pieces of fabric and sandpaper can be used in collages but you need good glue and afterwards to preserve the picture, it's a good idea to spray on clear varnish.

One of the major issues to deal with is the number of students who consider they are not artistically talented and will feel reticent to try. There's got to be a way of emphasising the fun aspect of the activity.

I've even made collages out of paper bark from gum trees, flat leaves and flat stones.

The first collage is my favourite. It has such wonderful patterns, but with the rich reds making the woman the focal point.  The still life one also rich colours and wonderful textures.