Friday, August 27, 2010

Untitled - Houston Temple (in progress)

I started this paper collage a couple of days ago. Paper projects tend to go really slowly, but I enjoy them. With this collage of the Houston Temple, I am experimenting with a different style than my last paper project attempts. So far I have only had one successful paper collage. This time I am taking a very selective color approach. Although, now that I have spent 3 days working on the sky, I am thinking that I want to replace some of the colors- almost all of the darker blues actually. They aren't working well together and they are too green. So my next task is to find the right colors of paper.
The other debate that I am having with the collage is how far I am going to push the detail. Right now it doesn't have a lot of detail and is developing with a cartoon feel. Fortunately, detail is much easier to put on then take away. So I think I am going to keep going with the simplified shapes and keep adding detail until I am happy with it.