Paper and Material Collages

We were asked to make 2 collages as part of our hand stitch technical file, one from paper and one from material, which represented the colour used in one or more of our journeys drawings. Mine were based on several drawings, incorporating the 'old' brickwork and 'new' sweet colours.

Paper Collage

Bondaweb Material Collage

I tried to keep the colours in the material sample true to the drawings and paper collage, and I feel that this was quite successful, however taken as a whole the samples are too busy; small sections work individually but together are overpowering. Although the outcome itself was not useful for my journeys project, I learned that translating drawings directly may not be the best way to create something visually pleasing, and how important it is to match colour correctly.

Small section of material sample that I feel works well on its own