This week’s throwback is taking a look at some old collages made my freshman year studying at DAAP. This turned out to be one of my favorite projects actually! It was challenging. I am a huge fan of scrapbooking, however do not often find the time for it as much as I’d like. In 2011 I was a more avid scrapbooker, so imagine my excitement of combining my love for art and scrapbooking in one! However, my first attempts failed because they were too “busy”. We made two preliminary rounds of collaging before the final collection. Layers of pencil, marker, paint, paper scraps, and other materials were cut and readjusted to come up with the final collage designs. The final product still retained lots of pops of color, which I like very much in my work, but managed to be easier on the eyes and not so busy. Using muted toned paper along with bright colors, I was pleased with the way these collages came out.
I believe I went on to incorporate these collages into some scrapbooks of mine, and liked the results.
Currently, I am working on a collage piece, which should be finished soon, which inspired this post. I love collage and should do more of it, it is a fun form of art that is easy to create! 
In the first collage, I like the subtle red squiggly lines the best. To create the smeared, ripped effect in these collages, I glued old sketches/pieces that I no longer liked and pulled them apart, which was an interesting effect!
This collage is perhaps the most dirty of all, I remember rubbing it with my shoe on the floor of one of the DAAP studios. Ick! However it has nice muted patterns from the gross floor, which added interesting texture.
This one has many fun details. I always look back and like fun line work. I don’t like how I made the two corners have collage squares leaving the rest of the paper blank, I wish I had a more clever composition.
I can’t wait to share my current collage project! Much different subject matter and approach, but I will try to use what I learned from this project and keep the new one from being too “busy” and overwhelming, as I tend to overdo it with color and lines.
Bailey Dowlin Art 
