COLLAGE OVER AN APPROPRIATED IMAGE

       Butterflies are strong metaphors for Spring, re-birth, new life.

I gave a portrait from a magazine new life as the background for this piece. I was drawn to it because of the flaming hair! I altered the paper with CitraSolv, sandpaper, and thin, watery gesso (over the features). Here's the altered paper: 



This will be the basis for a mixed media work.

When the gesso was dry and the paper flattened, I adhered 5 paper butterflies in a strategic placement, as well as a tissue flower I cut from gift wrap...see it in the lower right corner. As a final step, I added a few acrylic paint accents. 

Another ode to Spring!

See my previous mixed-media Spring collage using CitraSolv papers at THIS POST!