couture collage canvas

Hello

My friend Hilda gave me some back numbers of Somerset studio magazines. In one of them was an article by Julie Nutting who created the most amazing couture collage. I googled Julie and discoverd she has a book out of the same name. I duly bought it and was blown away. Julie takes you through stages of creating her girls, drawing, cutting and decoupaging them and their clothes.she also teaches you how to do the collaged backgrounds. After practising drawing the leggy beauties I gave uo trying to design my own and so traced my girl, then copied her on my printer, cut her out from text paper. I did her clothes the same way. After applying my scraps of scrap book papers, I painted on some Gesso, I also painted the edges with a mixture of raw umber and Gesso, then, stamped the background with pink flowers but it looked a bit too splodgy, so I sponged over them and stencilled white daisies instea. The pink still shows through but I think gives it added interest. I doodled more flowers with the finest black Pitt artist pen I had. I adhered my girl to the collaged background, decoupaged her clothes and held my breath while painted her hair and shoes. I then added a hairband and one of Zorana's little birds which I printed of the computer. Hope you like. Thanks for visiting,
hugs Joy xx