In which we have collage photos
Here are a few quick photos I took of the collage I put up yesterday for Julia Grey #5. As I said, the collages are always done quickly and without thinking them through--I like the process of just "doing" as opposed to the extreme amounts of thought and planning that have to go into the books themselves. I think that sort of change-up is good for creativity. It's interesting to see what patterns emerge from your subconscious when you just put something together rather than approach it in an organized fashion. And it's much faster--a bonus for me since too much time spent on a collage would make me insane with indecision and probably not yield a better result.
Tags:
Comments
collages
I've always pulled out pictures that strike me when I've been working on sets or artwork, but i never thought to work them into impromptu collages--am working on one of the pictures for my Christmas card this year, on the theme of young imagination, as we are having 4 babies in all born this year in the family--The picture I'm working on right now is of a small boy with a candle looking out a huge window at the moon with a sailing ship going across it---Took an old New York magazine, as didn't have anything more appropriate--except maybe National Geo. but didn't want to tear pages from it--and leafed through and took several pictures out and arranged them in a impromptu collage, and though at the time I was thinking more about the next picture for a girl, as I worked on the boy's picture last night, the exercise started giving me new insights into working my picture and it's coming a long quite nicely- I'm wondering now if it destroys the value of the exercise if you continue to it off and on-
Just read the JG#5 review---am so looking forward to the book--was thinking the other day about the Northwestern Frontier--now Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan--other side of India from Darjeeling---and the old stories I used to read about traveling through there--I leafed through FAR PAVILLIONS and I'm pretty sure the Pashtu were discussed in that ---I believe the Taliban are Pashtu and I wonder if our Afghan policy would have been any different had they read the many romantic suspense novels I did where one learned that the only way to deal with these tribes etc is to dress up as Pashtu and pass through the territory as one of them, quickly and quietly.
I think it was spurred by the tragic death of the aid workers, which someone on TV said she did not think were the actual Taliban, as they had a neutral policy toward these workers, but someone else claiming that-I thought it interesting that the driver survived by convincing them he was a muslim.
AM looking so forward to ROAD TO DARJEELING (just been watching the Hope and Crosby ROAD pictures on TCM --THAT"S who you're missing)
Very cool, now I have to ask
Very cool, now I have to ask the companion question, what are you listening to for this book? Did I miss mention of it?
Wow!
I'm glad you save these collages - the one for TDTF was classic.