I challenged my mixed media group to try the torn paper collage cat technique i showed a few posts back. I wanted to make another one and did the background.
Heres where serendipity stepped in and took over. I had a scrap on my work table, an old photocopy of a photo I took of a sea gull years ago on the coast. It had fallen out of something I was moving. I had once played with it in photoshop and posterized it. That converted it to planes of shades of grey.
I placed it on the background with the radiating rays behind it. I decided instead of painting it I would collage it, cut it out and mount it over the background.
I loved the gull, but it kind of got lost against such a bright busy background. Adding a thin wash of transparent white helped. But by now I had a creative rush of ideas, so this where it took me. Lol.
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