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EDIT: [5/8/11] Now with a 10% better picture!
Hey kids, more art! Get a load of that, huh?

Been interested in collages as of late, and I wanted to try my hand at more traditional stuff, so for AP Art I decided to give it a go. For some reason I've really wanted to create a piece with newspaper print on top of a face, so behold! The newspaper is actually all done by me and took about two days to cut out all the strips and glue it on there. Originally, I was going to try a transfer of the print of the model's face, but that was just not working out. So instead, after the newspaper was made, I scanned it and placed it on her face in Photoshop. After that I print her out and started going nuts with watercolor.

I really had no idea where I was going with this, but considering how the stock photo I used was a punk model I decided to go with a whole "punk rebellion" style. Pretty much all the color on here was done with watercolor, although I did use markers for some of the writing. This was really just playing around with traditional mediums and collages, and I really like how this one came out. I wish I had the time to draw the photo, but alas, I didn't D: I just applied a simple threshold to it.

Also that hand print there is my own, and most of the streaks are thumb prints. I feel like the paints gave me the plague because now they won't come off. Oh well, better pink paint than blue or something.

So yeah, I really like this. I wish the colors were a bit more bright, but oh well, what can you do. Hope you guys like it!

The lovely stock photo used for the model: [link]