A pleasant day in the studio, and the collage is coming together nicely.
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I absolutely love, love working with the orange colour palette against the green background.
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Making the textures is an enjoyable part of collage work. I use ‘deli paper’ which is a very thin transparent paper that doesn’t bubble up when wet, so when I paint and glue the pieces down they remain flat. I use a gel matte medium as my “glue”, it dries totally invisible.