ding ding! round 3
June 30th, 2006I have REALLY struggled with this collage, it left me feeling really uninspired. The layer before mine was supposed to be the background but instead it made what I felt was quite a powerful statement about what the theme of the collage was. This got me worrying that maybe my ‘cityscape’ had posed the same problems for the person I had sent it to. Anyway, can’t do much about that now.
art by Stacie and Annette 
So, the uninspiring collage has sat on my desk for ages when I finished all my other art committments, and that sat there a bit longer while I wondered what to do with it.
Eventually the image of a mermaid landed in my brain, while watching CSI, of all things - don’t ask! So I started hunting for images of mermaids on the web and finally decided on John Waterhouse’s Mermaid, which, with a little resizing amd mirror-imaging was perfect. Adding a little tissue paper here, a little Stewart Gill’s Galactica in Iced Sky there, and some PVA-type stuff all over, and VOILA!
I was suitably pleased with the results 
that is, until I looked at the pictures other people have uploaded for their 3rd layers, and I suddenly feel like maybe I have done too much 
Once I got started, I tried to remember everything we’ve been told about composition; shape, size, movement etc. and perhaps I got carried away and ended up ‘completing’ the collage, which was certainly not my intention. I hope it is recieved as what I intended it to be, just another layer, to be added to, collaged over, and whatever else the muse inspires.
