fortuneteller

 HELLO!

One day I thought that it might be a good idea to create a collage similar to Melancholy once again. By similar, I mean layering a paper with clipped parts on another paper (or cardboard) with press cuttings pasted on it. 

As for work from today's post I came up with a concept of a collage made on circular media (after among the sunflowers I wanted to do tondo work again) with a horoscope as a main theme. What's the reason for choosing this theme? I've simply gathered lots of cuttings from horoscopes because I saw in them the potential for an interesting dada poem, or collage. I chose the collage option.

So, let's begin.

So, after I prepared a paper circle, and also a cardboard circle, I started drawing a silhouette of female fortuneteller with her crystal ball on the paper one. Above you can see a first draft.

Slowly, I started colouring her with crayons. At the beginning I planned to use only a black crayon. Soon I changed my mind, I used also the purple one (for turban and clothes), and the brown one (for the tabletop). 

Then I took scissors.

I cut the areas of the face, the neckline, and also the crystal ball. I chose those areas in order to make a collage more mysterious. Plus, after glueing of paper and cardboard these areas will be filled with a horoscope advices.

Then I started arranging the cuttings on the cardboard circle, and gradually (and carefully) gluing them to the cardboard. Fascinating how this activity can be both annoying and calming at the same time. 

And after I pasted every horoscope cutting, I took a black and a purple fineliners. And with these fineliners I was distinguishing cuttings' forms.

After that I returned to the paper circle in order to prepare a background. 

I wanted this background to look a little bit psychedelic, so I used oil pastels to achieve this.

In the meantime I glued both circles together, and then continued work with pastels (and also additional adjustments). 

Below You can see the net result.

fortuneteller, collage, 29,5 cm in diameter.

That's all.

What do You think about fortuneteller?

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