Title: GRATITUDE©

I always think of my collages as paintings, creating new dreams, a new world.

I love the improvisational nature of collage, the spontaneity of it and playing with materials until they make a coherent composition,
It is a lot of work (but fun) creating backgrounds, building texture, layering washes, text, and using innovative collage techniques and unusual materials.

This is an Art Collage Painting , which I made for a friend as a donation for a charity fund raising convention in West Palm Beach (Fla). Sandi is an international ambassador of VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY. (Click on this link to get to their website.)
This organization is dedicated to improving the lives of children throughout the world by offering financial assistance and support to organizations and agencies that benefit children in need. Funding is also used to provide needed medical services or equipment for seriously ill and physically challenged children.
Their logo is a heart. That is why I painted hearts in the gold toned open hands.

Steps to create this collage:
The red is a thick-layered impasto of oil paint. I used a painter's knife.
The golden hands are made of newspaper. I painted a golden acrylic glaze over the hands, which makes the print still noticeable.
The hearts, keys post stamps are cuts of archival paper.
I like to alter the surfaces of all the collage elements in a variety of ways, by adding painted areas to give the illusion of depth. I also used Texture Gel Mediums. By using abrasion and sanding it roughens and interrupts the plane area's.

Close up 2nd picture:
For that man I used a transference technique creating transparent layered effects that brings mystery and depth to this work.
Finally I added some gold leaf (expensive!) ------------------------------------------------

Collage/Painting
Dimensions: 22"X28" (71X56 cm)
on a Studio stretched canvas.
Painted staple free sides.
Painting doesn't need a frame.

©opyright Olga van Dijk 2007©
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