New Work...Collage piece and the process

The assignment was to choose one of my artists’ cards and expand on the idea on an 11x 14 support. I used the same colors and image for the larger piece. The themes of my artist cards are portraits and the way I can distort them. First I printed out multiple images of the same portrait. Then I prepared my illustration board with house paint. Once I was done with that I began to collage different papers to the board. Another requirement for the assignment was to use a transfer technique. I decided to use the nail polish remover technique where you take the image you've printed, face it down and rub the nail polish on it. I assumed that this technique would work like the transfer marker method but it didn't work. When I applied the nail polish remover it just ruined the paper with the image I was trying to transfer. So then I just decided that I would only collage my images.

I used mat medium to paste down all the images and papers down on to the board. Then I began painting in layers and building up the image with different materials like house paint, acrylic, and ballpoint pen. I layered the piece with different mark marking techniques until I was satisfied. To complete the piece I painted a border to enclose the image.