Week 5 – Cut and Paste: Collage the Digital Way

Collage is an artistic composition made from a wide range of various materials. It has never been my forte. But growing up I remember being especially fond of the works by artists Picasso and Braque.

For my collage piece, I began with a photograph I took of Centre place

















Using cropped images from photographs of coffee-art that I had taken...




















I replaced the shop signs with coffee art. This was done essentially to signify Melbourne’s rich coffee culture
























It turned out like this







I continued playing with Adobe Photoshop CS4 and its' different filters. Some of which i used included: Accented Edges, Coloured Edges, Coloured Pencil, Crosshatch, Desaturate, Glow, Ink Outlines, Film Grain, Lighting Effects and Texture just to name a few. Here are some examples:









Accented Edges












Lighting Effects










I narrowed my choices down and settled with a few of my favourite filters and made patterns with them:








Using Ink Outlines and Desaturated Ink Outlines











Using Neon Glow and Patchwork












Using Coloured Edges and Glow









Using these small edited photographs that i had been working on, I developed them as photographs and created a larger repetitive mural. This was how i first constructed it, but i wasn't happy with the composition






















So i rearranged all the photographs to create a diagonal pattern. I'll still have to fix the frame because im not happy with it. Piece 1 done!


















This is an image of piece 1 in its final state