Series: Messy May #18
Prompt: 19: LESS
Host: Sarah @sjrondon – their response
Guidance: Using a base of neutral collage, add a single block of colour to create impactful spreads.
The prompt may have been “less” but that doesn’t mean I can’t add a touch of gold bling to the neutral collage pieces. I hunted through my stash for a variety of neutral elements and found a teabag, some dyed muslin, and various dyed papers. To those, I added a strip of gold paper and some pieces of broken eggshell. One of the pieces of paper must have been coloured with water-based inks or sprays because the colour smeared a little when I glued it down (this is why I mostly use acrylics or other water-resistant media when I make collage papers now).
The leaf is one from a pack I picked up along with some similar bits when a craft store was having a clearance sale a few years ago. I added the veins with Pebeo Mixtion Relief Gilding Paste and gold gilding sheet.
I’m still undecided about the shade of green I used: on the one hand I would like to have picked a brighter green but, on the other, it does add to the range of contrast in the piece. So on balance I’m happy with it.
Crafty Rat 
Very interesting how all of the elements came together nicely! Thanks for sharing!
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That’s part of the fun – and frustration – with collage, just playing around with pieces until they come together to form something more…
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