Collage Art
I've recently moved onto a collage style of working as opposed to assemblage art. I'm still in the main using a floral theme, but now instead of real 3D silk flowers, I'm using paper cut outs flowers from photos of my own displays, thereby creating a collage.
The portraits are hand drawn by myself in graphite pencil. Then, once the composition and colours are decided on, embellishments in the way of rhinestones, sequins, gem stones, beads, ribbons and trims, (and more) are added. The entire piece is then given several coats of Hyperion Top Coat, which gives as near glossy shine to resin as you can get. This really does bring out the colours, giving a super vibrancy.
Assemblage Art
Assemblage art is, as the name suggests, literally assembling a various assortment of odds and ends cohesively together. Mixed media would also be included in this genre. In my assemblage art, I have a central character portrait, which I hand draw in pencil, and around which everything else is related to.
I started this kind of art several years' ago, using in the main a much bigger, eclectic range of pieces to embellish. I've now developed my art to concentrate on silk flowers as the main embellishment, creating the hair - highly exaggerated! - for each portrait, with smaller pieces taking a more back stage in the composition. My early pieces with the flowers have been created with a plain white background, but I have since developed my work to incorporate a layer of clear, and very shiny, top coat of Hyperion, which is an alternative to resin. I started with epoxy resin, but I very quickly developed a severe allergy to it and it's fortunate Hyperion is a brilliant alternative, which is water based and has no toxicity. The assembled flowers are arranged on the top of this glossy coat,
